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Putting prisoners of war in front of reporters and news cameras is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law.
But Ukraine clearly felt any reputational damage it might suffer by doing so in a news conference this week would be outweighed by the fact that it featured two alleged captured fighters from China.
There was more value in giving them a platform to speak, the argument presumably ran, than protecting them “against insult and public curiosity” – something the International Committee of the Red Cross says includes protection from the media.
China has always claimed neutrality in Russia’s war on Ukraine and…