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War in Ukraine: former prisoners returning to the front
War in Ukraine: former prisoners returning to the front
(franceinfo)
While Ukraine needs men more than ever to fight, soldiers who were captured by the Russians at the start of the war, then recently released, must already return to the front.
It’s a weekly event: every week in kyiv (Ukraine), Ukrainians demand the release of their husbands, their sons, or their brothers, detained by the Russians. Prisoners of war numbered in the thousands. In recent months, there have already been exchanges of detainees between the two camps, including the release of former Ukrainian soldiers from the renowned Azov regiment.
“It was daily humiliation and deprivation”
Among the former prisoners returning to the front, one of them, Sviatoslav Siryi, testifies: “I first spent the first two months in the notorious Olenivka prison in the annexed part of Donetsk, then I was transferred to a detention center where I stayed until the day of the exchange“ On the conditions of detention, he adds: “As a prisoner, I experienced very difficult conditions: daily humiliation and deprivation.“
