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prisoner of war
noun
- a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. : POW
prisoner of war
noun
- a person, esp a serviceman, captured by an enemy in time of war POW
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prisoner of war1
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Born in Grantown-on-Spey in 1894, he escaped the prisoner of war camp and eventually crossed the Atlantic to follow his golfing dream.
Earlier, Zelensky said a peace deal with Russia could start with a "full" exchange of prisoners of war.
He recalls, speaking as a prisoner of war after being captured by Ukrainian forces in the summer of 2024.
In a post shared on X, the Ukrainian president said he and the US special envoy had "a detailed conversation about the battlefield situation, how to return our prisoners of war, and effective security guarantees".
She's become a one-woman telephone exchange for Ukrainian soldiers held captive in Russia: prisoners of war, who can't call Ukrainian numbers from Russian jails, dial Anastasia's Russian mobile.
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