'Idiots sent to slaughter': Russian POWs speak out
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With the war in Ukraine now in its ninth month, the number of prisoners of war on both sides of the conflict is growing. This week the ABC was granted rare access inside a POW prison in Ukraine. There badly injured and disillusioned Russian soldiers spoke of how they were sent to battle in some cases with no training or sense of what they would face on the frontline. Today ABC journalist Greg Jennett on his interviews with them and what he saw inside the prison. Featured: Greg Jennett, ABC reporter