Illustration photo – A Russian soldier with his equipment after training in Donetsk on January 31, 2023.
Kyiv – Ukraine already registers 9,836 requests from Russian soldiers who want to voluntarily surrender , the Ukrainian Coordination Staff for Prisoner of War Issues said today according to the BBC News server. Russian soldiers can apply for capture through a website called Choču zhit (I want to live), which is run by the staff.
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In some cases, soldiers also request capture through their relatives and other loved ones. The website was viewed 14 million times by internet users in the six months of its existence, despite the fact that it is blocked by the censorship authority in Russia, the staff also said.
Moscow never once informed about the number of Russians in Ukrainian captivity, noted the BBC. There were 3,400 Ukrainian citizens in Russian captivity at the end of 2022, according to Aljona Verbycká, the representative of the Ukrainian president for ensuring the rights of prisoners of war. Another 15,000 people were listed as missing by the Ukrainian authorities.
