“The Prosecutor General’s Office reminds that the killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to operational data, on October 2, 2024, Russian military personnel stormed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Vugledar. also shot.
The Prosecutor General’s Office reminds that the killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a serious international crime.
Human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets also emphasizes that this is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions.
This is the second such message in a week. The other day, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that Ossetian soldiers shot two captured Ukrainian soldiers in the Pokrovsky direction.
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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.