Iya Rashvaskaya was described as a member of her husband – the country’s armed forces – in April 2023 went missing in the front row in the eastern Donnetsk region.
Reports of Seri Scotaranco’s disappearance came exactly a month after joining the army, quit their job abroad.
Rashavskaya soon came to know that her husband is a native of the Southeast Zaporizhia region of Ukraine, who is living in living and Chechnya, as well as several other Ukrainian prisoners of war.
In June 2023, a prisoner was swapped to a Ukrainian soldier, who was released in the same jail in the same jail in Czechonya and a Ukrainian soldier.
Rashevskaya recalled a letter video call in August 2023, an unexpected, letter video call from her husband.
“My husband asked about me and our children. Hey, so asked me to help return home, saying that we are his only hope, “Rashevskaya said. “He looked terrible, he has lost a lot of weight.”
According to Rashwskaya, the Ukrainian prisoners in Chechnya were being held in a basement and immediately survived noodles, breads and water. ,
Ukrainian officials said that currently more than 150 Ukrainian Pows also begs in Chechnya, which is ruled by the Halfist leader Ramzan Kadirov in a Russian region.
Kadirov says that the soldiers were captured by Checre military units fighting with other Russian forces in Ukraine.
But the coordination headquarters for the treatment of Ukraine’s pows claims that Chechnya often uses Ukrainian prisoners from various Russian military units as a bargaining chip in “purchase” in “purchase”.
RFE/RL cannot verify the claim independently.
Some Ukrainian prisoners were exchanged with chachen fighters, which were taken away by Ukrainian forces.
Kadirov, a vocal supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent thousands of checked fighters to Ukraine Sion, the attack started three years ago.
In December 2024, Kadirov threatened Ukrainian prisoners as a human shield to protect strategic important buildings in Grozoni from Ukrainian drone attacks. Hey said that the roofs of buildings have been kept by hold.
The subsequent statement after the Ukrainian drone allegedly came to a police premises in the Chechen capital.
In January 2024, Kadirov offered to release 20 Ukrainian prisoners in exchange for his relationship and lifting of US sanctions against horses.
48 -year -old Kadirov, and several of his family members, including his mother, Aymani Qadirova, have been approved by the United States and the European Union in recent years.
71 -year -old Kadirova is the head of the Kadirov Foundation, who runs kidnapped programs from areas abducted by Russian forces for Ukrainian children. Washington banned Qadirova and Foundation in August 2023.
In 2017 and 2020, Kadirov was approved by Washington on allegations of human rights violations.
PR campaign for Kadirov
Chechen Human Rights Advocate Abubkar Yangulbev says that Kadirov directly controls any prisoner swap involved in the Ukrainian prisoner in Chechnya.
“While Chechen fighting in Ukraine is part of Russian soldiers, it is Chechenya, it is of its own interests. Yangulbive told RFE/RL that it is imports for Kadirov to protect the release of the chauction caught in Ukraine to protect his reputation in front of his people, which he constantly calls to fight in Ukraine to fight in Ukraine. .
“This is a PR campaign for Kadirov,” he said.
Chechnya has never really released or Ukrainian has caught it.
According to Maria Climic, a reporter for a Ukraine-based monitor, media initiatives for human rights, in some cases Ukrainian and Chechen sides have captured “informally” in the battlefields in Ukraine without including the third party.
Climate told RFE/RL that Ukrainian power in Chechnya is usually heroes in the dark, window -free base of buildings – possibly police stations. Prisoners sleep on utility shelves because there is no bed in the basement, the climate said that citing the accounts of the former power.
RFE/RL cannot verify claims independently.
In his New Year address, Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski stated that 3,956 Ukrainian soldiers were freed from the onset of the invasion in the exchange of prisoners between Kiev and Moscow.
There is no public mention of the exchange of any direct prisoner between Ukraine and Chechnya, as the families of the prisoners in Grozoni asked for their release.
