Legal Reference on the Status of Prisoners of War and Possibilities for Their Conviction
After 82 days of fighting for Mariupol, on May, 16, 2022, Ukrainian servicemen began to leave the territory of the Azovstal plant, which was the last outpost of the city's defense. In Ukraine, official sources talk about a rescue operation for the purpose of exchange, and in Russia they claim that the Ukrainian military yielded themselves prisoners. According to Ukrainian media, 53 seriously wounded people were transported to the occupied territory, to a medical facility in Novoazovsk to be p...