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Ukraine soldiers reunite with loved ones after prisoner exchange
NBC News·2025-06-11 00:15

Today, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were freed in an exchange with Russia. They were greeted to a hero's welcome at a hospital north of Kev. But they looked like the living dead, gaunt, heads shaven.Their bodies broken, and some said beaten. Alexander Kulkov told me he was a prisoner for over 3 years and that the Russians broke his ribs. If nothing was already broken, they would break it, he said.Hundreds of families of missing Ukrainians tried to show the P's photographs, hoping one of them might h ...