Ukraine’s parliamentary human rights commission denied on Sunday that the Ukrainian army was executing Russian prisoners of war, as recently condemned by Moscow, and said Ukrainian soldiers were defending themselves against Russian soldiers pretending to surrender.
Mediator Dmytro Lubinets said Moscow’s “video excerpts” as evidence that the Ukrainian army was executing defenseless Russian soldiers actually showed soldiers “faking surrender and committing war crimes by shooting at Ukrainian forces”.
According to Lubinets, these dead soldiers “cannot be considered prisoners of war”. “Those who use international protection to kill should be punished,” he said.
Recently, a video circulated on Russian social media showing Russian soldiers, who had apparently surrendered, forced to lie down and gunshots. Other images circulated showing dozens of corpses and a large bloodstain.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday accused Ukraine of executing more than 10 prisoners, condemning it as a “war crime”.
“No one will be able to present as a ‘tragic exception’ the deliberate and systematic killing of more than 10 Russian soldiers by direct shots to the head,” Russia’s defense minister said on Friday. said.
The UN warned this week that many POWs captured by Russian and Ukrainian forces were tortured and said it had received “credible reports” of extrajudicial executions of Russian POWs.
source: Noticias
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