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At a press conference in Kyiv, captive Russian secret service agents admitted that the Russian army is operating like fascists.

All captured Russian occupants will be transported and kept in one place.

On Saturday, the National Guard of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian armoured vehicle and captured 4 Russian intelligence personnel, including 1 officer near Mykolaiv.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross for help in finding Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine and providing assistance to them.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova has reported that prosecutors have taken 10 Russian aggressors into custody.

Head of the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ Igor Plotnitsky said that he was ready to discuss a POW exchange with Batkivshchyna MP and former prisoner Nadiya Savchenko, “if Kyiv authorizes her to do so,” RIA Novosti reports.

Volodymyr Fomichev, an employee of civic organization Centre.UA, who was captured by militants of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), was jailed for two years, Hromadske informs on Thursday, August 18.

Ukrainian citizens captured by militants in Donbas have been transferred to a pre-trial detention center. They are threatened with 30-year imprisonment.

Ukrainian army colonel Ivan Beziazykov has been released from captivity of militants.

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