Sergei Galkin has spent that time languishing in a detention center for Russian prisoners of war, the only still-captive member of an eight-person unit that crossed into Ukraine in the first days of the invasion.

Four unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) were apparently shot and killed by Russian forces in Donetsk Oblast earlier this November, adding to the five previously reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers,

( MENAFN - UkrinForm) Russian troops executed four Ukrainian defenders captured during an assault in Pokrovsk district of Donetsk region. The Office of the Prosecutor General reported the incident on facebook , as cited by Ukrinform.

Ukraine has recovered the bodies of 502 soldiers killed in battles with Russia, including remains from Russian territory, according to Ukraine’s Coordination Staff for Prisoners of War. Ukraine reported the recovery of the bodies of 502 soldiers who died in battles with the Russian army in the east of the country.

Vladimir Putin has threatened to target Kyiv's 'decision-making centres' with a new ballistic missile in response to Ukraine using long-range missiles on Russian territory.