“Russia very often refuses even to confirm whether Ukrainian prisoners of war are alive or dead. Can nothing be done to end the torture?” Lera Burlakova discusses the thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians being held in Russia, with their fates unknown. While international humanitarian law requires communication with detainees, Russia refuses oversight and denies Ukrainian POWs even a single phone call to their families, leaving them isolated in captivity.
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>I wonder: could someone initiate a modest step? Could they advocate for Russia to honor at least a portion of the Geneva Conventions, ceasing torture and executions, and permitting contact with families after years of captivity since 2014? I’ve heard volunteer fighters from pre-2022 invasion times are consistently excluded from Ukrainian exchange lists.
That situation is horrific, but expecting muscovia to honor anything remotely humanoid is akin to expecting a malignant tumor to go into remission if asked nicely.
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“Russia very often refuses even to confirm whether Ukrainian prisoners of war are alive or dead. Can nothing be done to end the torture?” Lera Burlakova discusses the thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians being held in Russia, with their fates unknown. While international humanitarian law requires communication with detainees, Russia refuses oversight and denies Ukrainian POWs even a single phone call to their families, leaving them isolated in captivity.
Excerpt:
>I wonder: could someone initiate a modest step? Could they advocate for Russia to honor at least a portion of the Geneva Conventions, ceasing torture and executions, and permitting contact with families after years of captivity since 2014? I’ve heard volunteer fighters from pre-2022 invasion times are consistently excluded from Ukrainian exchange lists.
That situation is horrific, but expecting muscovia to honor anything remotely humanoid is akin to expecting a malignant tumor to go into remission if asked nicely.
Russia is a terrorist state