Russia sometimes arranges fake prisoner swaps for Ukrainian captives

Russians sometimes take captured Ukrainians supposedly for a prisoner swap but then return them back, stating that Ukraine refused to exchange them. 

Source: Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights, on Telegram

Quote: "The Commissioner’s representative said that Ukrainian captives are sometimes taken supposedly for a prisoner swap, but then they are returned back to the colony. They are told that Ukraine refuses to exchange them. We consider this as a kind of torture."

Details: Lubinets pointed out that the Ukrainian side has not rejected any single person the Russian side offered for a swap.

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