prisonniers de guerre

In Rostov-on-Don (Russia), European soldiers involved with the Ukraine are being indicted by the Russian judiciary in a trial in which they are accused of being mercenaries.

Russia

Rostov-on-Don, the city where Russia tries Ukrainian fighters – and foreigners

27 June 2023 by Maria Koroleva (in Moscow, Russia)

Rostov-on-Don has just been in the news for the Wagner armed militia’s brief uprising. But it is also in this large town in western Russia that the first Russian trials of captured Ukrainian fighters are being held. One of them, a [...]

Prisoners of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic held by Ukrainian forces

Ukraine

Inside courts where Ukrainian judges try Ukrainian POWs

15 July 2022 by Iryna Salii

Dozens of Ukrainian combatants from Ukraine’s occupied territories who joined the Russian army’s invasion have been captured by the Ukrainian army. They are being tried en masse. The specialized news website “Sudovyi Reporter” ("C [...]

3 soldiers (Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun) stand behind bars

Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions

14 June 2022 by Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne

The treatment of prisoners of war (POW) in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is a growing issue. Both sides have been accused of violations of the Geneva Conventions that protect combatants when they are no longer able to fi [...]