prisoner of war

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They ended with no breakthrough - although the first prisoner of war exchanges in months took place shortly after.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

In one, a courtroom illustration of Maduro in a New York courthouse springs to life and announces: "I consider myself a prisoner of war."

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

In August, word reached back home that Igor Dolgopolov, 31 years old, had been made a prisoner of war after being deployed to Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

The man is said to have served at a prisoner of war camp in Hemer, western Germany, which held at least 100,000 inmates, mostly from the Soviet Union.

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

As Monge’s student, Poncelet had learned the technique of projecting diagrams onto two planes, and as a prisoner of war he had a lot of spare time on his hands.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife