Russia and Ukraine exchange PoWs after plane crash prevented last swap
theguardian.com
Russia and Ukraine have conducted a major prisoner-of-war exchange a week after a previous swap was prevented when a Russian Il-76 transport plane was shot down and exploded near the border between the two countries.
Both sides said about 200 prisoners each had been exchanged on Wednesday, although they disagreed about the exact figures.
“Our people are back, 207 of them,” Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote. “We return them home no matter what.”
He published photos showing Ukrainian soldiers hugging, making telephone calls and crying after the swap. Many were holding yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flags.
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As Ukraine celebrates their returning heroes, Russia will treat their returning Russians as criminals for allowing themselves to be captured. There is a stark, comic-book style contrast between the good guys and the bad guys.
How do you know how Russia treats the returning POW’s? Source?
I believe he is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_against_former_prisoners_of_war
Or this:
Seems like they still do that then.
Seems like they don’t do that anymore.