Before and after photos of Ukrainian war prisoners show ‘tortured’ bodies

‘Our guys are home,’ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a statement, confirming that 103 prisoners of war (PoW) person been released.

Those freed see defenders of the Azovstal Steel Plant successful Mariupol astatine the commencement of the full-scale warfare successful 2022, subject personnel, constabulary officers and borderline guards.

For their families, a nightmare is yet implicit aft 2 years successful Russia’s captivity for immoderate of them.

Before and aft images of them archer different communicative – of the fearfulness they endured successful the hands of their enemy.

In the earlier photos, each 3 men, who agreed to beryllium pictured, are shown smiling, with their faces overmuch fuller and cheeks rosy.

After 2 years of imprisonment, they person returned location ‘absolutely exhausted’ and astir emaciated aft losing betwixt 20kg and 40kg.

Their collarbones are sticking retired and their eyes are astir hollow. Their bellies are sunken, shoulders and hep joints intelligibly disposable nether their airy skin.

Their information is akin to the 1 of different Ukrainians returned signifier captivity successful Russia.

Photographer Kostiantyn Liberov shared the images connected Instagram arsenic portion of his bid documenting the maltreatment that Ukrainian PoWs person endured.

‘In the photos, you spot Ukrainian soldiers who returned from Russian captivity a fewer days agone aft being held for much than 2 years,’ helium said.

‘These are those who agreed to beryllium photographed.

‘We are penning this successful English due to the fact that radical successful Ukraine already cognize that Russia is violating the Geneva Convention and is keeping our prisoners successful inhumane conditions.

‘The photos are grounds of that, and with this publication, we purpose erstwhile again to gully the attraction of the Western assemblage and emphasise: Russia tortures, abuses, and starves those who were simply defending their homes.

‘Russia denies planetary commissions entree to its prisoner-of-war camps, intelligibly to fell grounds of Geneva Convention violations.

‘Meanwhile, Russian soldiers successful Ukrainian captivity amended their wellness nether changeless aesculapian supervision and summation value acknowledgment to a balanced fare (you tin find grounds of this adjacent successful this profile).

‘On the different hand, Ukrainians instrumentality location perfectly exhausted and 20, 30, adjacent 40 kilograms lighter.’

Soldiers often springiness harrowing accounts of their conditions successful captivity erstwhile they instrumentality location arsenic portion of regular prisoner exchanges.

In a study issued successful July, a United Nations quality rights bureau said it ‘continued to papers the wide usage of torture and ill-treatment, including intersexual violence, against civilians and Ukrainian PoWs held by the Russian Federation.’

Saturday’s swap is the eighth of its benignant since the opening of 2024, and puts the full fig of PoWs exchanged astatine 1,994.

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