Russians and Ukrainians Work Together to Find Detained Ukrainian Civilians in Russia
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are disappearing into Russian prisons, with a network of Russians and Ukrainians working to locate them. Russians and Ukrainians works together to locate thousands of Ukrainian civilians detained in Russian prisons Nadezhda Yevdokimova last saw her husband, Vlad, three years ago when Russian soldiers took him at a checkpoint in Ukraine. She received a call from a Russian prison guard who found her contact information on a paper hidden in a thread spool from Vlad's cell. The guard is part of a volunteer network in Russia who risk their lives to share information about detained Ukrainians. Lawyers and activists say Russian forces are illegally detaining Ukrainian civilians as they occupy Ukrainian territory. A Moscow lawyer calls it the biggest human rights crisis in modern Russia, with the number of victims growing significantly. A former Russian law enforcement official describes the kidnapping of civilians as a tool of terror, creating fear a...