“Dmytro Lubinets sent letters to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross and expressed his belief that “the international community should immediately react to this act of cruelty””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“According to the information that is spreading on the Internet, Russian troops probably shot at close range at least two unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kurshchyna. Prisoners of war should always be protected, in particular from acts of violence, but Russia has once again committed a war crime, which is a serious violation of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law,” Lubinets said in a telegram.
He added that he had sent letters to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding this crime and expressed his belief that “the international community must immediately respond to this act of cruelty.”
Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that on October 18, Russian troops executed two more Ukrainian soldiers who were captured in the Selidovoy region of Donetsk region.
On October 15, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin called the killing of Ukrainian servicemen in captivity a purposeful policy of the Russian Federation.
Reports of murders, torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war are regularly reported. In general, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have information about the murder of at least 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian soldiers, reported on October 4, the representative of the OGP, Yuriy Belousov.
According to him, 80% of cases of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war were recorded in 2024, but the trend began to appear in November 2023, when “changes took place in the attitude of Russian servicemen towards our prisoners of war for the worse.”
The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says it has observed an increase in the number of executions by the Russian military of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and points out that Russian commanders are likely “tolerating, encouraging or directly ordering” the executions.