Guaranteeing the Exercise of the Right to Medical Care of Prisoners of War in the Context of International Protection

Abstract

The aim of the article is to study the Ukrainian and international legal framework with respect to the exercise of the right of prisoners of war to medical care and, likewise, to determine the measures to ensure it. The following methods were used: analysis and synthesis, statistical analysis, graphical methods and logical-abstract method. The distinction of this study is the systematization of the legislative framework and non-legal measures concerning the exercise of the right of prisoners of war to medical care. In the course of the research, it was established that a number of Ukrainian and international legislative acts regulate the rules of treatment of prisoners of war, including the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war. The findings of the investigation established that Russian occupiers regularly violate these provisions in relation to captured Ukrainians. However, the mechanisms for bringing war criminals to justice and the methods for assisting Ukrainian POWs are imperfect. The optimal way to help prisoners of war is exchange, but its procedure is also imperfect and communication with the enemy is complicated.