“Since the end of August 2024, UN representatives recorded 79 Ukrainian military executives in 24 separate incidents”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the Mission press service, since the end of August 2024, UN representatives recorded 79 such executions in 24 separate incidents. Also in 2024 the execution of the wounded and incapacitated Russian soldier was documented by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2024.
With regard to 24 incidents, the mission received and analyzed video and photographic materials published by Ukrainian and Russian sources where the deaths or bodies of the dead were recorded. She also conducted detailed interviews with witnesses. The geographical and chronological attachment of the incidents indicates that the executions reported in the areas where Russian offensive operations were conducted. These messages are regarded as reliable.
“These incidents did not take place in a vacuum. Public figures in the Russian Federation were openly called for inhumane treatment and even the execution of captured Ukrainian servicemen. Combined with broad amnesty laws, such statements can incite or encourage unlawful behavior, ”said Mission Chairman Daniel Bell.
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According to the organization, international humanitarian law prohibits the order that no one should survive, threaten the enemy or conduct fighting on this basis. The statement that “there will be no mercy” is a serious violation of international humanitarian law and military crime.
Last December, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets reported that 177 Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed during the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
The reports of murder, torture and ill -treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war are received regularly.
According to October Yuri Belousov in October last year, 80% of cases of Ukrainian prisoners of war were recorded in 2024, but the trend began to appear in November 2023, when “changes in the attitude of Russian servicemen to our prisoners of war took place.”
The American Institute for War Study (ISW) stated that it was observing an increase in the number of executions by Russian military Ukrainian prisoners of war, and emphasized that Russian commanders are likely to “indulge, encourage or directly ordered” shootings.