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6,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held in Russian Federal Penitentiary Service institutions
2025-08-23
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] There are about 6,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian FSIN institutions, a source for the RT TV channel reported on August 22. Some of them have been held since the spring of 2022.

At the same time, according to the source, there are about 1,000 Russians in Ukraine with the status of prisoners of war.

On August 14, Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, reported that Ukraine had accepted only two prisoners from the list of 1,000 that the Kiev regime had previously rejected as part of the exchange. He noted that 84 servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces had been returned from Ukrainian territory, and the same number of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters had been handed over to Ukraine in exchange.

On August 6, Medinsky stated that Kiev refused to accept 1,000 captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, which is why the second exchange within the framework of the agreements reached in Istanbul was difficult, and the third has not yet begun.

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