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Kiev: Russia has killed 93 prisoners of war

2024-10-05 17:11:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Kiev: Russia has killed 93 prisoners of war

Ukraine has documented evidence of the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to an official charged with investigating war crimes during Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Yuriy Belousov, who heads the General Prosecutor's Office's department investigating crimes in armed conflict, announced the latest figure on Friday.

"We have information about the death of 93 of our soldiers who were executed on the battlefield," Mr. Belousov said in a televised appearance.

He said that about 80% of the executions were recorded this year, but that the number of executions began to increase in November "when the attitude of the Russian military towards our prisoners of war hardened".

On October 1, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had opened an investigation into what it described as the "largest mass execution" of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops since the Russian aggression began in February 2022.

According to an official Ukrainian statement published on the Telegram channel, Russian forces recently killed 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war near the villages of Mykolayivka and Sukhiy Yar in the Pokrovsk district of the Donetsk region. Videos circulating on various Telegram channels appear to show Ukrainian soldiers, newly captured by Russian troops, emerging from a wooded area.

After the prisoners are lined up, Russian forces appear to open fire. The videos then appear to show Russian soldiers approaching those who were only wounded and shooting them again at close range with machine guns. The videos have not been independently verified.

Under international humanitarian law, the execution of soldiers who surrender is considered a war crime. Ukraine's human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said he had contacted both the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross about the deaths, citing violations of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

In March, the UN Human Rights Mission in Ukraine released a report documenting the execution of at least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of war on 12 separate occasions from December 2023 to February 2024./ CNA





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