Beim Austausch am 11. April 2026 holte die Ukraine 182 Ukrainer nach Hause. Eine medizinische Mitarbeiterin, die entlassene Kriegsgefangene behandelt, sagt, sie könne nicht aufhören zu weinen, nachdem sie die Geschichten über die Folter gehört habe, die sie erlitten hätten.

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During the exchange on April 11, 2026, Ukraine brought home 175 service members and 7 civilians. Medical worker that treats them shares she cannot stop crying hearing the stories of torture they endured:

>“We can’t stop crying. It’s an intense emotional pain. They tell us how they were treated there and it’s horrifying,” says Liudmyla, an intensive care unit worker who treats wounded defenders.

>“If you heard how iron shavings were poured into their mouths, wouldn’t you cry?”

Among those released are 25 officers whose exchange had previously been rejected, defenders of Mariupol, and soldiers captured during the occupation of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the first days of the full-scale invasion. The youngest defender is 22, the oldest is 63.

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The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has reported on the condition of seven Ukrainian civilians returned from Russian captivity.

„This is a difficult negotiation track — the release of unlawfully detained civilians. The negotiating group of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War worked on this. The process was reinforced on my end through humanitarian communication with Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner T. Moskalkova,“ Lubinets wrote on Telegram, adding that these people were deprived of their liberty without legal grounds and held in detention without trial or investigation.

Those returned are young men, mostly born in the 2000s, from the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, and Donetsk regions. All of them had been unlawfully held since 2022.

„All of them were abducted from their own homes without any grounds whatsoever, or detained at checkpoints. One Ukrainian was abducted while on his way to visit his father,“ the ombudsman wrote.

Those returned home are in a severe psychological state, suffering from trauma and illness. In particular, one of the released individuals is in critical condition: he has a traumatic brain injury, bruising of internal organs, and burns to his skin as a result of torture.

Lubinets emphasized that this constitutes a direct violation of the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as these individuals should never have been detained in the first place.

[Source](https://t.me/dmytro_lubinetzs/11410)

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