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What do the Geneva Conventions and other sources of IHL say about fighters who are not nationals of the belligerent States?

It has been another week of Ukraine pushing back against the Russians, and we have the latest highlights for you.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has beeb unable to gain access to Ukrainian prisoners of war who suffered in Olenivka. This was reported by the ICRC press service.

Denying prisoner of war status to fighters in Ukraine on the grounds that they are ‘mercenaries’ violates international law.

Russian forces in Ukraine have forcibly disappeared civilians and illegally transferred them to Russia, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Russia handed over the men captured while they were fighting in Mariupol to a court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

As per universally-accepted norms, prisoners of war must be protected against acts of violence, insults and public curiosity.

Security expert analyses the treatment of POWs by both sides in the Ukraine conflict

"The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway region in Ukraine presents a serious deviation from international law."