#Ukrainian prisoners of war

Severely wounded and taken captive, a Ukrainian soldier, call sign “Positive,” found himself in the most negative of circumstances. Yet, not only did he survive, but he also ultimately convinced his Russian captors to surrender.

Four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war can be counted in numbers: 212,947 documented war crimes, thousands of civilians killed, and millions displaced. Dive into the verified figures that define Russia’s war against Ukraine.

“The cell is cold, rats run around, the light is on constantly.” This is how a civilian journalist abducted in Russian-occupied Melitopol describes her detention. Like many other Ukrainian media workers, Yana has been reclassified by Russia as a “terrorist” and sentenced in a closed, staged trial, effectively erased from public view and from prisoner-exchange talks.