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Ukraine Refuses to Take Own PoWs as It Considers Them ‘Expendable’ — Expert

© AP Photo / LIBKOSUkrainian servicemen help to evacuate a wounded soldier on Aug. 30, 2023.
Ukrainian servicemen help to evacuate a wounded soldier on Aug. 30, 2023.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.08.2026
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Ukrainian PoWs kept in Russia tell the truth about the condition of their lives — they were well fed, kept in warm rooms and treated medically, political analyst Vladimir Skachko says.
"Care for people was never a strong point of the neoNazi regime. For it, they have always been ‘cannon fodder’," he says.
On August 13, Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Yana Lantratova published a list of 273 Ukrainian PoWs Russia is ready to return to Ukraine as part of an exchange. She stressed Ukraine has a list of another 224 people it is refusing to take.
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