Maximum humanity
The number of Russians in Ukrainian captivity is not stated officially. A source of Novaya Gazeta. Europe involved in the organisation of prisoner swaps from the side of Kyiv, explains that this number is difficult to calculate due to the fact that Russian army officers are not the only ones getting captured: “The mobiks (forcibly mobilised soldiers) from the ‘LDPR’ [Luhansk and Donetsk ‘people’s republics’] and National Guard officers surrender in squads. There are also FSB officers, mercenaries from private military companies, and [Chechen leader Ramzan] Kadyrov’s troops: Ukraine finds no pleasure in taking them captive. But it does take them. In total, there are about 6,000-7,000 of them now. Ukrainian commanders have received orders to treat the POWs with maximum humanity. And this is bearing fruit. Men who have been drafted within the ‘partial mobilisation’ in Russia have already begun to surrender.”