The collateral damage in war is heartbreaking. From schools being destroyed to people being killed mercilessly, the war photographs depict the actuality of damage caused.
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The human cost of war is horrifying, and the same is detailed in two images of a Ukrainian soldier— one shot before he was captured by Russians and the other taken after his release.
To highlight how Moscow is treating Ukrainian soldiers in captivity, Kyiv expressed fury at Russia over its treatment of a recently released Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW). As a result, Kyiv was forced to reveal the soldier’s “before and after photographs.”
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According to the Kyiv Independent media outlet, Mykhailo Dianov, a member of the Ukrainian Azov army, was one of the 215 prisoners of war exchanged on September 21 in a prisoner swap.
Per the news agency AFP, a soldier from the Ukrainian Azov army named Mykhailo Dianov was recently freed in the Chernigiv region as part of a prisoner of war exchange.
Dianov was one of the 2,000 soldiers sent to recapture the Azovstal steel mill from Russia at Mariupol, but they were beaten and captured in the middle of May.
Photos posted on Twitter illustrate how thin he has gotten to be. The photograph of Dianov after his release was compared to the one taken in May, in which the combatant was caught smiling triumphantly.
The soldier’s one arm was missing four centimeters of bone, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor for the Ukrainian foreign ministry.
“Treatment and rehabilitation will take a long time now (and more pain”),” he added. “That’s all we need to know about captivity.”
Illia Ponomarenko, a journalist from Ukraine, tweeted a fundraising request. According to a tweet, Dianov’s daughter has also launched a fundraising campaign for his hospital rehabilitation and health care.
The Geneva Conventions require that prisoners of war be treated humanely, as per Oleksandra Matviichuk, director of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine). Countless deaths have resulted from Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The United Nations has counted 5,916 fatalities, but experts believe the actual number is significantly higher.
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