Russia Publishes List of 224 Ukrainian POWs for Swap Amid Dispute

Lantratova denied this allegation, asserting that Russia does not discriminate against individuals from Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions. She stated Russia had proposed three lists to Ukraine over the past month, but Ukraine was refusing to accept them back. Her statement included the list of 224 Ukrainians that she claimed Kyiv had most recently declined.

Ukraine's human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, refuted the claim, calling it 'cynical lies' and emphasizing Ukraine's daily commitment to bringing back all its citizens. Neither side publicly discloses comprehensive figures for the number of POWs held, and both have accused the other of abuses.

Separately, a UN human rights official reported that UN monitoring documented widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees by Russian authorities. The monitoring also documented torture and ill-treatment of Russian POWs held by Ukraine, but on a 'fundamentally different scale.' Russia's representative rejected these allegations at an informal Security Council meeting.