Their loved ones are Ukrainian medics — and Russian prisoners of war

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“You want to shout to the whole world,” one prisoner’s sister says as families press for the medics’ release.

for 55 Russians in the largest such exchange of the war. Four days after her release, she gave birth.

Once Russia invaded, communications with Biiovska were sporadic. When a bomb destroyed the hospital, she and other medics moved to the Ilyich steel plant. Her anguish comes through when she talks about the Russians: “They have taken our lives and the lives of our loved ones.”Alona Koval’s younger sister, Maryna Golinko, is a medic and first lieutenant with the Ukrainian 36th brigade. She was transferred last November from Kyiv to Mariupol, where the start of the war meant a very different mission, evacuating and treating soldiers from the battlefield. “It was frightening,” Koval said.

Koval didn’t believe a word, though she “wanted it to be true.” Her fears were confirmed by one of the medics who was freed last month, who said her sister and others were being held in horrible conditions in Russia and regularly beaten. Mkrtchian, a 31-year-old anesthesiologist, managed a brief call to his sister Karina the day after the blast.About a month later, he sent a letter that he signed “a military doctor.”

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