Russia Blackmails Families of Ukrainian POWs, Demanding Favors in Exchange

Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held in Russian custody and their families are being coerced through blackmail and extortion.

In the shadow of war, Russian intelligence services have turned the anguish of separation into a weapon, using captured Ukrainian soldiers as leverage to coerce their families into compliance. The tactic is ancient in its cruelty and precise in its targeting: it finds people at their most vulnerable — not knowing whether a child or spouse is alive — and offers the unbearable gift of information at a price. International humanitarian law was written, in part, to prevent exactly this inversion of human decency, yet the reported practice suggests those protections are being deliberately circumven

Russia Blackmails Families of Ukrainian POWs, Demanding Favors in Exchange

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