Posted 3/6/2024, 4:35:00 PM
Reports Emerge of Illicit POW Exchanges and Mistreatment of Captured Ukrainian Soldiers
- Russian fighters are operating a black market for Ukrainian POWs to exchange them in prisoner swaps
- A Ukrainian official said Chechens "bought our wounded" after capture to exchange them
- A Ukrainian soldier was captured, denied medical care, then sold to Chechens and taken to Grozny
- In Grozny the soldier finally got medical treatment, but they had to amputate his leg and hands
- An estimated 4,000 Ukrainians have been taken prisoner; over 2,500 have been exchanged