“Lubinets says that he has already sent letters to the ICRC and the UN”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The occupiers have no limit to cynicism and cruelty! The Russians shot an apparently wounded, unarmed Ukrainian soldier. They recorded it on video,” the ombudsman noted.
Lubinets says that he has already sent letters to the ICRC and the UN.
“This is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. If you do not respond to this, the crimes will be repeated. Unpunished evil always returns,” the Ukrainian ombudsman emphasized.
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.