A 20-year-old soldier from Louisiana who died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday. U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph C. Murphy was serving in the 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines in 1942. While he was serving, Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands, […]
In the dense jungle terrain in Darlac Province, near the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, American doctor Eleanor Ardel Vietti had found her calling to heal. Yet that same calling led her to become America’s first female prisoner of war in Vietnam. To this day, Vietti remains the only American woman POW […]
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Ukraine conducted its 51st POW exchange with Russia, with assistance from the United Arab Emirates, the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate reported on Feb. 8. A total of 3135 defenders have been freed since Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Among those released from captivity is a medic who, under extremely difficult conditions at Azovstal, saved […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed that a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by Ukraine. But Ukrainian officials say there’s no evidence to support Russia’s story. The Russian Defense Ministry said a plane transporting 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed in the Belgorod region near Ukraine on Wednesday. Six crew […]
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has disclosed the details of the PoW swap with Russia which was planned for 24 January but was not held after an Il-76 aircraft crash in Belgorod Oblast in Russia. Source: Andrii Yusov, representative of Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Coordination Staff, on air […]
Ukraine was indeed preparing for a POW exchange with Russia on Jan. 24, but after Moscow claimed that the Ukrainian prisoners were onboard the downed Il-76 military aircraft, the swap is now in limbo, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov told RFE/RL. “I can confirm that the exchange planned for today is not currently taking […]
Ukraine has allocated Hr 34.05 million ($908,000) from the reserve fund of the Justice Ministry to repair a prisoner of war (POW) camp for Russian soldiers, the government reported on Jan. 23. Ukraine is a signatory of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which stipulates that POWs must be treated humanely […]
Dmytro Lubinets, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (the Ukrainian Parliament), says that another prisoners of war swap between Ukraine and Russia may be carried out in the next few weeks. Source: Lubinets in the 24/7 national newscast cited by Suspilne, Ukraine’s public broadcaster Quote: “I hope the swap process will […]
Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, has spoken about the preparations for the release of more than 200 Ukrainian defenders from Russian captivity. Source: Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) Quote: “After a long period of time, we have been able to conduct a very complex PoW swap. …Preparations for this […]