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Which civilians were released during the significant exchange?

Among the 120 civilians exchanged on May 23 was one political prisoner and 15 individuals who had been convicted of crimes in Ukraine and illegally deported to the Russian Federation from temporarily occupied territories. In addition, many Ukrainians who once committed crimes in Russia and have already served their sentences there were returned. How will their homeland welcome them?

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Bitter frustration over Russia’s (non) release of Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages

Whether or not Moscow was deliberately trying to sow discontent in Ukraine, its failure to release political prisoners whose life is in danger and others illegally imprisoned for years was brutal

Go to the enemy for evidence? Civilians who went through Russian torture chambers demand justice

Go through the torture chambers of the Vovchansky Aggregate Plant and never receive the status of a person who was deprived of personal freedom as a result of armed aggression against Ukraine. Why is the current law on the protection of civilian prisoners discriminatory?

Captivity, death sentence, and six Russian drone attacks. The story of a volunteer who saves civilians in the Donetsk region

Yevhen Tkachov has been volunteering since 2014. He was captured and almost died. But after being released, he did not stop evacuating people from dangerous areas.

Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years in ominous twist to Russia’s ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ repression

Ihor Varchuk was seized by the Russians while defending his country and probably tortured, before this blitzkrieg ‘trial’ on surreal ‘terrorism’ charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Court frees blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner sentenced to 17 years for protest over Russian repression

Oleksandr Sizikov's release is a welcome first, except that he should never have been arrested, nor had to endure the torment of the past five years

Merciless brutality against 74-year-old Donetsk hostage imprisoned since 2018 for supporting Ukraine

Frustration and despair are inevitable when 74-year-old Vitaly Atamanchuk, and other hostages, imprisoned for their pro-Ukrainian position, are constantly passed over in exchange lists

Russians execute two unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war

This second such execution in May alone comes just a few months after UN monitors expressed alarm over the huge increase and pointed to Russians’ impunity and the constant incitement to commit such war crimes

They let you talk to a prisoner and then blackmail you into committing sabotage

Russian special services are trying to use the families of prisoners of war for criminal actions.

Abducted, tortured and sentenced to 13 years in Russian captivity for letters to Ukrainian defender husband

Yulia Koveshnikova was abducted because of her pro-Ukrainian views and her soldier husband. She was held prisoner in a pit, with her captors beating her around the head for every word she spoke in Ukrainian

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Server Mustafayev, renowned Crimean Tatar political prisoner, receives Freedom House award for exemplary courage

Server Mustafayev “chose not to be silent” about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea. Russia’s vengeance against him and other Crimean Solidarity journalists has been savage

10-year sentence in torture-based ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’ for Russian propaganda

Although one of countless sentences passed for supposed 'plots' thwarted by Russia's FSB, this is the first of three sentences against abducted civilians, including a 74-year-old with major health issues who cannot walk without a stick

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