““According to preliminary data, during the assault on the positions of the Ukrainian troops in Donetsk region, the occupiers captured six servicemen of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and subsequently shot them.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“According to preliminary data, during the storming of the positions of the Ukrainian troops in Donetsk region, the occupiers captured six servicemen of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and subsequently shot them dead… Currently, investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime and the persons involved in its commission are being carried out,” the reports say. .
The OGP stressed that the execution of prisoners of war is a serious violation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and is classified as a serious international crime.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, previously appealed to international organizations – the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross – due to another case of shooting of captured servicemen of the Armed Forces by the Russian military.
“On the video, the occupiers recorded their own crime – the shooting in the back of six Ukrainian soldiers who were captured. The video cuts off as the seventh warrior lies on the ground, his fate unknown. The execution of each of the prisoners takes place in front of the other comrades. At the same time, the occupiers order them to “lie down and shut their mouths”, and the “operator” of the crime calls out “One is mine”, and later it can be seen how he fires a number of bullets into the back of one of the prisoners of war,” the ombudsman said.
In December, Lubinets reported that 177 Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed during the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
Reports of murders, torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war are regularly reported.
As Yurii Belousov, a representative of the OGP, noted in October last year, 80% of the executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war were recorded in 2024, but the trend began to appear in November 2023, when “there were changes in the attitude of Russian servicemen towards our prisoners of war for the worse.”
The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said it was observing an increase in the number of executions by the Russian military of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and stressed that Russian commanders likely “connived, encouraged or directly ordered” the executions.