“The execution of prisoners of war is a serious violation of the Geneva Convention in relation to the treatment of prisoners of war and is classified as a serious international crime,” added the prosecutors.
Earlier Thursday, the telegram channels spread a video showing that Russian soldiers methodically turning unarmed Ukrainian troops on the back one by one. “On a leash for me,” said one of the Russian soldiers as a seventh prisoner of Ukrainian war lying on the ground. Then the video stops. Politico could not independently check the video.
The Ukrainian mediator Dmytro Lubinets has applied for war crime on video with the United Nations and the International Red Cross. “The Russian army has never been famous for its treatment worthy of prisoners of war, and now it once again demonstrates its helplessness and crime,” Lubinets said in a statement on Thursday.
“The lack of responsibility has transformed these crimes into a system. We cannot turn a blind eye to this!” The mediator said. “Ukraine needs justice and responsibility for those who commit crimes and do not adhere to any standard.”
The number of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the battlefield increased considerably, said Lubinets in December, shortly after a video appeared from Russian soldiers by pulling five disarmed Ukrainian war prisoners. kyiv recorded a total of 177 executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian forces since the start of the invasion in 2022.
“The Russians are trying to link all the Russian soldiers by blood so that they do not go to the Ukrainians or that they are trying to completely show the contempt for international law,” Lubinets to journalists told November 2024.
Officially, the Kremlin denies any ill -treatment of prisoners of war. However, Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has publicly condemned publicly to his soldiers not to make prisoners in Ukraine and threatened to use Ukrainian prisoners as human shields against Ukrainian drone attacks.
