The Ukrainian conscripts who were released from Russian captivity on Independence Day had been tortured and starved to death. Therefore, their return from captivity cannot be called “lost time and chance,” states former prisoner of war Maksym Kolesnikov. On Saturday, August 24, another prisoner exchange took place between Russia and Ukraine, in which 115 conscripts returned from Russian captivity. Commenting on the event, Azov commander Denis “Redis” Prokopenko blamed the Ukrainian authorities for not returning any Azov prisoners home as part of the exchange. “Despite the fact that the Russian…