FAKE: Mothers of Ukrainian PoWs do not want their kids to return to Ukraine
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This fake is a continuation of a russian propaganda narrative about Ukrainians being unwilling to fight. Unfortunately for russia, in reality, the situation is reversed: Ukrainians are having trouble getting into the military since there are too many volunteers and not enough equipment for everyone, and in russia recruiters are having trouble finding men willing to join the russian army. There are multiple cases of russian PoWs refusing to be exchanged and returned to russia. Ukrainian PoWs are also being kept in horrible conditions, undergo torture, and many die in russian prisons. Additionally, russia has a long tradition of treating its soldiers that were captured by the enemy as traitors or criminals. During WW II, thousands of Soviet soldiers released from German captivity were senteced to penal colonies, GULAGs, or were executed for being collaborators or “enemies of the people”.
