Russia-Ukraine updates: UN says Moscow preventing access to war prisoners

The head of the UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, said Friday that Russian forces were preventing international monitors from meeting Ukrainian prisoners of war.

“The Russian Federation has not provided access to prisoners of war held on its territory or in territory under its occupation,” Bogner said.

“This is all the more worrying since we have documented that prisoners of war in the power of the Russian Federation and held by the Russian Federation’s armed…