Ukrainian POWs are being bought and sold on a Russian black market, report says

• Russian fighters are operating a black market for Ukrainian prisoners of war, The Times of London reported.
• The fighters, Chechens, "bought our wounded" after their capture, a Ukrainian official said. 
• This is so they can exchange them in their own prisoner swaps, he said. 

A black market in Ukrainian prisoners of war is being operated by Russian fighters, according to The Times of London.

Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's headquarters for the coordination of POWs, told the paper that it was being run by groups of Chechens, the ethnic group from southern Russia.