As one of the few TV teams, SVT’s Bengt Norborg and Linda Hörnqvist have gained access to a prison for Russian prisoners of war. Here, the prisoners choose to tell themselves why they went to war, who is to blame and how they are treated in Ukraine.
SVT has met Oleg, Ilja, Aleksej and Ivan and through them gained a unique insight into the reality behind the barbed wire.
– It was a mistake. All this is terrible, but there are no wars without victims, says Oleg.
The Russian prisoners of war about the war in Ukraine
See the full program The Correspondents: The Russian Prisoners of War here.