Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox. Were bringing the voice of Ukraine to the world. Ukraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war in a swap announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of two British volunteers also being sent back to Ukraine. He continues to move, so the soldier shoots again, and he stops. A Russian private military company is sending prisoners suffering from AIDS or other serious illnesses to the war in Ukraine, according to the accounts of a Ukrainian soldier. We kind of respected him because he'd also been in prison." Last week, the head of Wagner, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said he would end the practice of recruiting convicts. [115] In addition, due to missiles striking the Polish village of Przewodw in Lublin Voivodeship on 15 November 2022, two Polish civilians were killed.[116]. At a pretrial detention facility in Ukraine, the second floor is reserved for Russian prisoners of war. WebSince July, around 40,000 inmates have joined the Russian forces, according to Western intelligence agencies, the Ukrainian government and a prisoners rights association, They brought us to a basement, divided us into five-person groups and, though we hadnt been trained, told us to run ahead, as far as we could go, he said of his commanders. The Russian prisoner says he was given food and cigarettes, adding: "I didn't see any fascists. The fighting would turn out to be far more dangerous than he had imagined. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said he had not seen the video, but stated: I will say that every report on potential violations of international law should be followed or looked into, and of course, any violation of international law and any war crime is always unacceptable.. Russia has already sent approximately 300 persons to the combat zone, as reported by The Media Line (TML) and the Telegram channel of Radio Liberty. [271] During June, the bodies of 374 Russian soldiers were exchanged for the bodies of 365 Ukrainian servicemen between Ukraine and Russia.[272][273][274][275]. [109], By 17 February 2023, the Ukrainian prosecutor general announced that at least 461 children had been killed since the start of the invasion, with a further 923 wounded. [59], In late August 2015, according to a reported leak by a Russian news site, Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn), 2,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine by 1 February 2015.[60][61]. On Prigozhin's goal of changing Russian society. [citation needed] The head of the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for POW Treatment, Iryna Vereshchuk, raised concerns that Russia had not released information to Ukrainian authorities on the location of any Ukrainian POW's and the International Red Cross had not been allowed to see them, as of 16 March. Eventually the catering contracts expanded to include military services. But with the prisoners of war, they say, things are easier. While some have raised concerns that the conferences breach the Geneva Convention through potential unnecessary humiliation, US journalists who spoke to POW's independently of the conference claimed there was no intervention by Ukraine officials, by physical or mental coercion. It's these prisoners. The figure includes 560 soldiers who were killed over the past day. In the interview, he admitted to dealing marijuana and meth, for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2020. We've had very different figures of how many have been captured or killed or wounded. (Editor's note: This is the official Kremlin term for Russia's war against Ukraine. We're told it is"for their own protection.". Yes, they have heavy losses. [104] In early June 2022, the Svetlogorsk City Court in the Kaliningrad region ruled that a list of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, published by privately owned news websites, constituted "classified information" and its publication could be considered a criminal offense. 'Look for Your Own'), appeared aimed in part at undermining morale and support for the war in Russia and was quickly blocked by the Russian government's media regulator the day the initiative began at the request of Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office. "It's just so out of the realms of fantasy that this former convict is going to fly around prisons in his helicopter and offer people salvation for fighting for him at the front, and then lead these battalions of prisoners to their almost certain death. Audio interview adapted to NPR.org by: Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper. CSIS estimated Russia suffered an average of roughly 5,000 to 5,800 military fatalities per month over the first year of the war. Their accounts could not be independently corroborated but conformed with assessments of the fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut by Western governments and military analysts. [67] According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, in 2020 Ukraine was of one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, with nearly 1,200 mine/ERW casualties since the beginning of the conflict in 2014. Deputy Justice Minister Olena Vysozka told DW that the expenses are justified because the detention conditions for prisoners of war have to comply with the Geneva Convention.In addition, Russian prisoners need to be healthy and in good shape for exchangeswith Ukrainians captured by the Russians, she said. And they all said to us, "We could see from this guy that he was one of us. Why is China cracking down on prominent business figures? Private Sergei said he had initially been pleased with the offer of a pardon in exchange for service in Wagner. "He offers to set up a kind of private military company, which will be able to do the Kremlin's work for it, but retain that kind of deniability. Ukrainian prisoners of war are seen after a swap in an unknown location of Ukraine on Saturday. [366][367] Subsequently, the first large prisoner exchange took place on 24 March, when 10 Russian and 10 Ukrainian soldiers, as well as 11 Russian and 19 Ukrainian civilian sailors, were exchanged. Me and my colleague, when we were researching this article, we managed to get hold of a few prisoners who are still in prison and speak with them either by text message or in other ways, and ask them how they saw this guy, why people agreed to go, why, in that case, they didn't agree to go. On Sunday, the British defense intelligence agencysaidthat over the past two weeks, Russia had probably suffered its highest rate of casualties since the first week of the invasion. Initially, the known number of Ukrainian military casualties varied widely due to the Ukrainian Army drastically understating its casualties,[17] as reported by medics, activists and soldiers on the ground, as well as at least one lawmaker. The exchange of prisoners is the biggest between Moscow and Kyiv since the start of Russia's invasion in February. We see them crawl for a kilometer or more, toward Ukrainian trenches, then open fire at close range and try to capture positions, Col. Roman Kostenko, the chairman of the defense and intelligence committee in Ukraines Parliament, said in an interview. It's cramped but clean. So far, the tactic has been used primarily by Wagner in the push for Bakhmut. Hes gasping, a man in the video can be heard saying in Russian a language widely spoken in Ukraine. [108], By December 2022, 19 of Ukraine's 24 oblasts had been documented by open-source intelligence to have civilian deaths. Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders throwing waves of bodies into an assault. "Here are some helpful resources to make sense of it all. By Farangis Najibullah. "We are asked every day if we need anything. Combat deaths can be inferred from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery and video image of military actions. In September, the independent Russian news site The Insider also reported that a 63-year-old man from the Volgograd region was drafted into the Russian army despite suffering from second-degree diabetes and cerebral ischemia, a condition where there is not enough blood flow to the brain. Talking to Ukrainians who have been on the other side of the lines and kind of watched the Wagner troops approach them, they've said the same thing: that it's really strength in numbers. The women prisoners who were interviewed said that while they were not physically tortured, they were placed in cells close to where male prisoners were being beaten and tortured. Skip to search results. It was the first verdict in a trial of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine. The sequential assaults on Ukrainian lines by small units of former Russian prisoners have become a signature Russian tactic in the effort to capture Bakhmut. Two Russian soldiers taken prisoner near Kyiv, by Ukraine following Russia's military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with business leaders at the Kremlin on July 4, 2017. 24.02.2023, 11:02. All Rights Reserved. It was only here that I realized that.". The exact number of Russian inmates recruited is hard to establish. In another cell, there are three young men in their 20s. A soldier can then be heard shouting Glory to Ukraine. #Ukraine/#Russia: All prisoners of war must be treated humanely at all times - from capture until release & repatriation. This is not a particularly well-educated or cultured guy. Following a request by journalists to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, DW became the first media outlet to speak with Russian prisoners and film in the prison. [17][18][19][20][21] Several medical officials reported they were overstretched due to the drastic number of casualties. [49], In December 2017, a large prisoner exchange took place where the rebels released 73 out of 176 prisoners they were holding, while Ukraine released 306 out of 380 of their prisoners. During the Russian annexation of Crimea[1] from 23 February through 19 March 2014, six people were killed. On the night of Jan. 1, they were commanded to advance 500 yards along the tree line, then dig in and wait for a subsequent wave to arrive. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced Thursday that the swap occurred after it was ordered by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Ukrainian Volunteer For breakfast, there was corn porridge with meat, the prisoners say. Others said they had to eat from dirty dishes or dishes with detergent residue, which caused them digestive problems. "They simply had fun and were not interested in my replies to their questions," he told U.N. investigators. With Putin's blessing, the Wagner Group has recruited inmates from Russian prisons to fight in the war in Ukraine promising a pardon if they survive six months on the battlefield. Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy On the other hand, Artyom, another prisoner, says he made a conscious decision to take part in the "special military operation" against Ukraine. "But you go to the front, you put in your service after six months, you're free to go.". [16] Two Kyrgyz and one Georgian have also been killed fighting on the separatist side. On the little training the Wagner Group mercenary soldiers get. He said that during one interrogation session, Russians "attached wires to my genitalia and nose and shocked me.". He's not pretending that this is going to be pleasant or this is going to be a holiday. Russia claimed to have captured 572 Ukrainian soldiers by 2 March 2022,[364] while Ukraine claimed 562 Russian soldiers were being held as prisoners as of 20 March,[365] with 10 previously reported released in prisoner exchanges for five Ukrainian soldiers and the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov. Russia is recruiting young Palestinians and Syrians for the war against Ukraine. [10] This number includes non-combat military deaths, as well as deaths from mines and unexploded ordnance. But after just three days,he was ordered to encircle Kharkiv, a city of over a million people. The Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Their hands were tied and eyes covered so tightly with duct tape that wounds were left on their wrists and faces that continued to bleed for up to several days. "The Kremlin is sort of looking for ways to disguise the fact that its troops are active in Ukraine [and] Prigozhin steps in," Walker says. They found a match to a Georgian man with close links to Ukraine, but are yet to confirm his identity. The soldiers in Sergeis squad were recruited from penal colonies by the private military company known as Wagner, whose forces have mostly been deployed in the Bakhmut area. So there is part of this, I think that is about this guy saying to these people, even convicted of horrific crimes, you do your time at the front and you will get redemption and you will be released back into society and you will become part of society. When he signed his contract, Oleg says, he was promised training and that he would not be deployed on the front lines. WebUkrainian and Russian primary sources enable us to integrate the civilian Soviet population into the story of the Wehrmacht's treatment of Soviet POWs during World War II. Eight soldiers were killed, one escaped back to Russian lines and Sergei was captured by Ukrainians. Russian defense officials, meanwhile, announced that 63 Russian troops had returned from Ukraine. Show Transcript. Part of Prigozhin's pitch really is that patriotic, real Russia is not the guys that go to Paris for the weekend. 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All of these people said, "We wouldn't trust a normal Russian official, but this guy had something about him that made us think he was one of us." The next group would follow after a pause of 15 or 20 minutes, then another, then another., Of his combat experience, he said, It was the first and last wave for me.. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. The others were armed with only assault rifles and hand grenades. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Footage allegedly shows Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian prisoner of war video, BBC investigators attempted to biometrically match, discovery of mass civilian graves in Bucha. We were hit by machine-gun fire, said the soldier, a private named Sergei. Nobody could ever believe such a thing could exist, Sergei said of Wagner tactics. [262], Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, announced on 27 February 2022, that the country had reached out to the International Committee of the Red Cross for help in the repatriation effort of the bodies of killed Russian soldiers. The Museum of Military History also lists separately 138 currently unidentified soldiers who were killed: 65 at Krasnopolye cemetery, Jones, Seth G., & Riley McCabe, Riley, & Palmer, Alexander, (February 27, 2023). relying on tens of thousands of inexperienced conscripts. [81][82] Analysts warned about accepting the Ukrainian claims as fact, as Western countries were emphasizing the Russian military's toll, while Russian news outlets have largely stopped reporting on the Russian death toll. DW was able to get exclusive access and speak with prisoners in one facility. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. The current conflict is more than one country taking over another; it is in the words of one U.S. official a shift in "the world order. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. AP And they have become an integral component of Russias military strategy as itpresses a new offensive in Ukraines east: relying on overwhelming manpower, much of it comprising inexperienced, poorly trained conscripts, regardless of the high rate of casualties. [52] At the end of December 2019, a new prisoner exchange took place, with Ukraine releasing 124 separatist fighters and their supporters, while 76 prisoners, including 12 soldiers, were returned to Ukraine by the rebels. BBC investigators attempted to biometrically match the face of one of the men in the video, who can be seen facing the camera with a distinctive beard. Seven men of different ages are sitting in one of the cells. 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When his tank was fired upon near Pryluky in the Chernihiv region on February 27, he surrendered to the Ukrainians. However, a major criticism is that it fails to [citation needed] According to Ukraine, as of 30 The reportby the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found that both Russia and Ukraine have captured a high number of prisoners of war. This Ukrainian investigators have so far also failed to produce evidence of any war crimes they may have committed. He got very quick medical attention. "I asked the commander what we were doing here and the answer I got is that I should not ask unnecessary questions," Dmitry remembers. Russias deployment of former convicts is a dark chapter in a vicious war. According to the guards, plastic cutlery is normally used inprison for safety reasons. [97] At the height of the fighting in May and June 2022, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy[98] and presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, between 100 and 200 Ukrainian soldiers were being killed in combat daily,[99] while presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych stated 150 soldiers were being killed and 800 wounded daily. During the interviews, DW journalists were accompanied by prison staff who allowed themto choose the men theywanted to interview. In some cases, the investigators found that Ukrainian forces tortured Russian troops, though those incidents were less frequent. There he learned to drive a T-72 tank in just a few days. These orders were common, so our losses were gigantic, Sergei said. A poster displays a Russian soldier with a slogan reading "Glory to the Heroes of Russia." The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine uses the terms "combat losses" and "liquidated". And we can definitely see, just from the number of fresh graves in the Wagner cemetery in southern Russia, that they certainly have been taking huge casualties. "Walczyli o wolno Ukrainy, ale te za Polsk", "MON nie chce kara Polakw walczcych w Ukrainie. [382] According to a statement by Sergei Shoigu, Russia's Minister of Defence, in early June 2022, 6,489 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's a bit of a disregard, really, for human life. One year has passed since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine. The initiative, called Ishchi Svoikh (Russian: , lit. 16, 2022A Ukrainian police officer stands inside a detention center used by the Russian forces for interrogations, detentions, and torture according to the Ukrainian authorities on Nov. 16, 2022. 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