The Russians are holding 403 Ukrainian women captive, including civilians, according to the Coordinating Staff for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

It is reported that the Russian Federation is also detaining women whose fate has been unknown since 2014. The conditions of their detention do not comply with the Third Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

According to women released from captivity, the Russians humiliated them, kept them in inhumane conditions with insufficient food, refused medical care, and did not allow them to contact their relatives. Additionally, Russia does not grant representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross access to places of detention of prisoners of war and civilians.

"The Ukrainian side has more than once offered Russia to release the women first, but instead the representatives of the aggressor country engage in manipulations, in particular by publishing various lists. Behind all this is the reluctance to continue the exchanges," the report states.

The Headquarters emphasized that women, as well as seriously wounded and seriously ill individuals, should be freed from captivity or repatriated to neutral countries as a matter of priority according to international humanitarian law. However, the aggressor country ignores this.