UKRAINE, Dec 12 – As of December 2024, at least 25 civilian women illegally held in Russian captivity before the full-scale invasion, and Russia took another 276 Ukrainian civilian women prisoner after February 24, 2022, said Olha Skrypnyk, head of the board of the Crimean Human Rights Group.

Olha Skrypnyk said that these are not the final figures, and there may be many more women in Russian captivity. Still, it is difficult to confirm these figures because Russia refuses to provide information about captive civilians.

Skrypnyk also said that even this incomplete data shows that Russia has taken 11 times more women prisoners of war since February 24, 2022.

On November 21, Dmytro Lubinets said that as of November 2024, 3,767 Ukrainian citizens have been released from captivity since the beginning of the war, including those who were taken into captivity after 2014. This figure includes 168 civilians, and all others are military. He also said that 95% of all prisoners of war are tortured in captivity.

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