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RT: Russia reveals number of captured Ukrainian POWs
Many Ukrainian servicemen see resistance as “futile” and prefer to lay down arms, Russia’s top investigator told RT
Russia is holding about 2,000 Ukrainian servicemen “who have voluntarily laid down their arms,” including five brigade commanders who “were fighting against the Donbass population,” the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin announced on Tuesday.
In an interview with RT, Bastrykin said that investigators were working with prisoners of war and were getting “many details about the circumstances of the Ukrainian regime’s crimes.”
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Update: Moscow reveals number of Ukrainian POWs (BlokVesti)
WNU Editor: I find this number to be disturbingly low. I have not seen any numbers from Ukraine in the past few weeks on their number of Russian POWs.
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