“In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian invaders beat and shot a Ukrainian prisoner of war with the butt of a machine gun – an investigation has been launched.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office
Details: In November 2025, during an assault on positions near the village of Hnativka, Pokrovsky District, representatives of the aggressor state surrounded and captured a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. One of the occupants tied his hands, and the other hit him several times on the head with the butt of a machine gun. When the unarmed defender stopped responding, he was shot.
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Law enforcement officers remind: the deliberate killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and is classified as a serious international crime.
Under the procedural guidance of the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office, a pre-trial investigation into a criminal proceeding has been launched into the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of a person.
photo – from the case files of the Donetsk Prosecutor’s Office Urgent investigative (search) actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the event and the specific persons who committed the specified crime are currently being conducted.