Russian prisoners get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don’t
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Russian prisoners of war smoke at a detention center in Ukraine’s Lviv region Ukraine has regularly opened its main POW camp to the Red Cross, the United Nations and international journalists. Over three weeks, families of Ukrainian POWs gathered more than 25,000 signatures for a petition to stop Russian POWs’ calls home and sent it to the government, which quickly rejected the demand in late April. A telephone with a trident, Ukraine’s national symbol, is seen at the prisoner of war detention center in Ukraine The conversations, a government statement said, show Russian soldiers there is nothing to fear by surrendering. The Red Cross organizes much of the communication, but Vlasenko said unlike letters, phone calls are up to “the goodwill of the parties.” The families’ anger and the petition rejection come amid widespread reports of mistreatment of Ukrainians in Russian captivity.
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