Ministry of Justice tells Ukraine how much it costs to keep Russian POWs

Ukraine spends about 10,000 hryvnyas per month to keep one Russian prisoner of war, Deputy Justice Minister Olena Vysotska told Ukrinform.

She said that this is the total amount, including supplies to the camps, taxes, salaries and other expenses.

There are expenses for clothes, medical support, food, utilities, and also for arrangement of the place of detention, personnel, security. So if we talk about a more or less normally calculated cost of keeping a prisoner in the camp at the end of 2022, taking into account the camp supply, with taxes, salaries, utility costs - this amount is about 10 thousand UAH per prisoner per month," Vysotskaya said.

She also added that maintenance of prisoners in domestic pre-trial detention facilities, according to 2021 estimates, cost 130,000 hryvnyas per year, or 11,000 hryvnyas per month, which is very close to the amount of maintenance of prisoners of war.

It is known that POWs in the camps do paid work. They can spend the money received for it in local shops or on international negotiations. They also cook their own food. There is a recreation room in the camps, where they can watch TV or even read books in Ukrainian.

For Russian military personnel who want to surrender, there is a 24-hour hotline of the project "I want to live" from the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

If you are in Russia, contact via Telegram or WhatsApp:
+380 95 68 86 888
+380 93 68 86 888
+380 97 68 86 688
Not only military personnel, but also their relatives can contact them to find out more about the surrender procedure and guarantees for prisoners of war.

If you are in Ukraine, please call:
688 (from Ukrainian numbers only)
+380 95 68 86 888
+380 93 68 86 888
+380 97 68 86 688
+38 066 580 34 98
+38 093 119 29 84
+380 44 35 08 917