"In 2024 alone, we can confirm that Russian troops shot 109 Ukrainian prisoners of war," Lubinets said. Reports of murders, torture, and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war are received regularly by Ukrainian authorities.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said in a recent interview with the state media that Moscow has returned the bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in an attack on January 24 against a Russian military transport plane in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border.

Sergei Yevsyukov has been killed and his wife has lost a leg, according to media reports circulating after the blast.

Russia claims to have handed over the bodies of the Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) who allegedly were on board the crashed Il-76 plane, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has said on Monday.

Russia has returned the bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war who died in a plane crash en route to a prisoner swap, Russia’s presidential human rights commissionersaid Monday. Russia’s defense ministry in January accused Ukraine of firing missiles at the Il-76 transport aircraft in January,

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Russia launched another attack on Ukraine. Kyiv's air defence successfully shot down 28 out of 74 assault drones deployed by the Russian military. An additional 46 drones lost communication due to effective electronic warfare measures.