Video has emerged in the last couple of days depicting the murder of ten Russian POWs by their Ukrainian captors. The video “confirms the atrocious nature of the current Kiev regime led by Zelenskyy and those who protect and support him,” the Russian Defense Ministry said yesterday in a statement. “Nobody will succeed in presenting the intentional and methodical murder committed by the degenerates from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, through direct head-shots [of] ten immobilized Russian servicemen, as a ‘tragic exception’ amid the allegedly entire compliance with the rights of prisoners of war by the Kiev regime. The brutal murder of the Russian servicemen is neither the first, nor the single war crime. This is a common practice in the Armed Forces of Ukraine that is actively supported by the Kiev regime and straightforwardly ignored by its Western patrons.”
TASS reports that the ombudswoman of the Donetsk People’s Republic Darya Morozova has appealed to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross over the video of the massacre of prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces near Makeyevka. “I expect an objective investigation. If the authenticity of this footage is confirmed, we will demand a proper response from the international human rights community to this flagrant war crime committed by the Ukrainian armed forces,” Morozova told TASS. “The shooting of unarmed and immobilized men is further proof that Ukraine is a terrorist state, and its militants are not soldiers, but unprincipled and cold-blooded killers.” Russian Federation Ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova issued a similar statement, released by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. (https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4178 )
The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council reacted to the alleged incident by calling for an international probe into what its head, Valery Fadeev, described as a “demonstrative and audacious crime.… This is a violation of all possible conventions banning cruel treatment of captives, as well as of international law and moral norms.” Moscow will send the information on the alleged execution of Russian captives to the UN Human Rights Office, the Council of Europe, as well as Amnesty International, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
