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  2. Moment Ukraine prisoners of war are reunited with families as ...

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    President Zelensky has shared footage of the moment Ukrainian prisoners of war were reunited with their families. The service personnel returned home following an agreed prisoner swap with Russia ...

  3. Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners apply to join army in return ...

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    In its quest to fill the dwindling ranks of its infantry, Ukraine has turned to recruiting prisoners to join the fight against Russia, and more than four thousand have applied so far. The 3rd ...

  4. Can Americans fight for Ukraine? Prisoners of war and the ...

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    It follows the sentencing of a 21-year-old Russian soldier in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial. Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to shooting a 62 ...

  5. Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Ukrainian prisoner of war and human rights activist Maksym Butkevych was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The vast majority of Ukrainian prisoners who had in the hands of the Russian Federation and Russian-affiliated armed groups reported that they had been interned in dire conditions and subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including ...

  6. Shaun Pinner - Wikipedia

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    Shaun Pinner is a former soldier of the British Army who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a contracted fighter in 2018 and fought during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the siege of Mariupol , he was captured and sentenced to death in a show trial by the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed statelet Donetsk People's Republic (DPR ...

  7. Russian penal military units during the Russian invasion of ...

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    By March 2023, the British Ministry of Defense said that about half of the recruited Wagner prisoners had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. [2] In November 2023, British intelligence noted that Russian commanders would often punish soldiers who abuse drugs and alcohol by forcing them to fight in Storm-Z detachments. [14]

  8. Ukrainian ex-convicts seek second chance in army service - AOL

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    Former car thief Bohdan Filonenko had a simple response for fellow inmates who criticized his decision to join Ukraine's military. Filonenko, 32, is among thousands of Ukrainian prisoners who ...

  9. Kraken Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The Kraken Regiment (Ukrainian: Спецпідрозділ "Kraken", romanized: Spetspidrozdil "Kraken") is a Ukrainian military volunteer unit, part of the spetsnaz units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) [3] formed in 2022 as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.