Russia takes upwards of 5-15x more POWs than Ukraine takes of Russian troops, depending on the time. For instance, there was a time that Ukraine officially confirmed having around ~2500 Russian POWs when Russia verifiably had over 12-15k+ Ukrainian ones.
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“There is a figure, we do not name it publicly. What about the exchange fund - I constantly hear this question from relatives. We publicly said yes, we have problems with the exchange fund.
This means that we do not have enough Russian prisoners of war, whom we want to exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war. They exist, the number is not enough, and this is also a problem,” said Lubinets.
Go to the website to see the documentary videos & sources. Most of the sources are Ukrainian. It's even more sobering than I thought. Ukrainians are actually discussing, on film, what parts of their bodies to chop off in order to avoid conscription.
