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Prisoners of War

The "Miked" or “M” room, a secret World War II British intelligence listening facility, is pictured inside the new Trent Park Museum, after its recent opening in Enfield, north London, on July 29, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS/AFP)
August 5, 2026, 10:29 am
New museum opens at UK mansion where captive Nazi officers were spied on to glean secrets
‘Listeners,’ mostly Jewish refugees, transcribed conversations of high-ranking POWs during World War II who were lulled by comforts to disclose intel that was used against Germany
By AFP
Amnon Sharon painting some of his clay sculptures depicting the torture he underwent as a prisoner of war in Syria, October 1973-June 1974. (Courtesy of Israel Disabled Veterans Organization)
March 18, 2024, 3:39 pm
Israeli survivor of captivity and torture in Syria exorcises his demons by sculpting clay
Former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war Amnon Sharon shares his experiences living ‘alongside PTSD,’ criticizes public activism for release of hostages in Gaza
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Still image from a video purporting to show the crash of an Ilyushin-76, a Russian military transport jet, which was said to carry 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, on January 24, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
January 24, 2024, 2:43 pm
Russia says plane carrying Ukrainian POWs crashes, killing all aboard
No confirmation from Ukraine; Russian lawmaker accuses Kyiv of shooting down aircraft on way to prisoner exchange, killing 65 captured troops
By AP
Palestinian men surrender to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 10, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 10, 2023, 7:42 pm
Images of stripped, bound Gazans prompt concern; Israeli official: Won’t happen anymore
IDF says terror suspects searched to ensure they’re not wearing explosives belts, but that it hasn’t distributed pictures; national security adviser: they serve nobody’s interest
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Jacob Magid
Dmytro Kozatskyi, head of the Azov Regiment press service, photographer and Mariupol defender, is photographed showing his emaciated body after being held in Russian captivity since May and freed in a prisoner exchange, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 3, 2022. (LIBKOS/AP)
November 15, 2022, 2:55 pm
Both Ukrainian, Russian forces tortured prisoners of war, UN investigators find
Russians were more systematic, with ‘vast majority’ of those who were held captive telling monitors of abuse including beatings, humiliations, electric shocks and mock executions
By AFP
In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian servicemen frisk Ukrainian servicemen as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, May 17, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
October 19, 2022, 1:51 am
Kyiv accuses Red Cross of neglecting Ukrainian prisoners of war
Ukraine says humanitarian organization’s ‘inaction’ is leading to torture; Red Cross says waiting for authorization and security guarantees to visit prisons
By AFP
Vlada (L) and Ludmilla speak to The Times of Israel in Kyiv, August 4, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
August 12, 2022, 2:17 pm
With loved ones in Russian camps, Ukrainian women fight to bring them home
Fiancées and mothers tell The Times of Israel they don’t know if Azovstal POWs are alive, and feel abandoned by Red Cross and government; ask Kyiv rabbi to petition Israel for help
By Lazar Berman
Vladimir Kozlovsky displays his Israeli ID card in a video apparently taken after he was taken captive by pro-Russian forces in Luhansk after fighting for the Ukrainian army, June 30, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
June 30, 2022, 8:59 pm
Israeli citizen fighting for Ukraine taken captive by pro-Russian forces in Luhansk
Foreign Ministry says it is aware of status of Vladimir Kozlovsky, seen in video filmed and distributed by separatists showing his Israeli ID card
By ToI Staff
In this photo taken from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on May 18, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier after he left the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
May 19, 2022, 12:52 pm
Red Cross says it has registered hundreds of Ukrainian POWs from Mariupol
Head of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic says soldiers who needed medical assistance have been hospitalized while others were put in detention facility
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN
In this frame from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on February 19, 2022, a Russian marine runs during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
March 17, 2022, 7:40 pm
‘We didn’t see any Nazis’: Russian POWs speak on fighting a war they claim to oppose
Seemingly uncoerced, pilots held by Ukraine tell CNN about low morale of comrades, being kept in the dark about the mission, and their shame in taking part
By ToI Staff
A view shows a destroyed Russian army multiple rocket launcher on the outskirts of Kharkiv on March 16, 2022, amid the ongoing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
March 17, 2022, 3:06 pm
Human Rights Watch urges Ukraine to stop parading around Russian prisoners
Watchdog says such treatment of POWs violates Geneva Conventions on humanitarian law during conflict
By AFP
Captured Russian soldiers answer media questions at a press conference in the Interfax news agency in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
March 7, 2022, 6:46 pm
Ukraine parades Russian troops captured during invasion before cameras
Ukrainian military lines up 10 POWs before press, makes them recite repentances; Red Cross says prisoners ‘must be treated with dignity’
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU
Screen capture from video of a Russian soldier captured by Ukrainian forces. (YouTube)
March 2, 2022, 6:14 pm
Ukraine invites Russian mothers to collect their sons captured on the battlefield
In apparent jab at Moscow, Kyiv says soldiers will be handed over to parents; Ukrainians circulate videos of POWs slamming Russian commanders
By AFP and ToI Staff
A still from the new Netflix animated documentary 'Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis.' (Courtesy of Netflix)
December 11, 2021, 9:02 am
How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence
New short animated Netflix doc ‘Camp Confidential’ by Israeli directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan unearths a controversial top-secret program that helped America win the Cold War
By Rich Tenorio
Israeli captives land in Israel after a prisoners of war exchange following the Yom Kippur War on November 15, 1973. (Avi Simchon/Bamahane/Defense Archive)
September 15, 2021, 3:04 pm
When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show
A week after their release from capture in 1973 fighting, troops who had been on the Egyptian front met top general, demanded answers for the IDF’s failures
By Judah Ari Gross
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