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riversedge

(75,682 posts)
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:46 AM Saturday

The Ukrainian Prisoners of war let loose by Putin are all Thin--as they pass by...........

but alive. Some relatives will be joyous -others not as they learn the names and see faces.



Relatives of Ukrainian Defenders in captivity are holding photos and shouting their surnames, hoping to learn at least some information.

📹: hromadske

Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T13:41:38.065Z

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riversedge

(75,682 posts)
3. Most did not look happy., But they were looking for family and were
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:47 AM
Saturday

going through a line where many were asking about troops they did not know--or maybe did not want to say what they knew. just thinking. I can't begin to realize the trauma they went through.

Irish_Dem

(69,973 posts)
8. Yes perhaps they knew the what happened to the missing troops.
Sat May 24, 2025, 01:21 PM
Saturday

But I would think there would be the look of relief and some happiness about escaping death and a return to home.

There affect was flat and quite grim.

LiberalArkie

(18,282 posts)
7. The Ukrainian prisoners have probably been told by the Russians that their families and friends all all dead, killed
Sat May 24, 2025, 12:28 PM
Saturday

by "the jews running Ukraine". Kind of like some of the tactics used by the Nazis to their prisoners in WW2

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