On October 2, near Vuhledar in the Donetsk Region, the russian occupiers executed five captured unarmed Ukrainian defenders, which is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime.
It was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.
Thus, according to operational data, on October 2, russian servicemen stormed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Vuhledar. During the offensive, the occupiers captured 5 unarmed Ukrainian defenders.
"They killed one of them in a forest strip, and four were taken to the road at the sight of automatic weapons, where they were also shot," the report says.
The killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime.
Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a pre-trial investigation has been launched in criminal proceedings on the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of people (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Urgent investigative and search actions are being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the incident.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, according to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets, the murders of Ukrainian prisoners of war are a deliberate tactic of the russians, aimed at intimidating their own soldiers, as well as changing the international legal order in the world.
Earlier, on the Pokrovsk axis, the prosecutor's office recorded the facts of the execution by the russian occupiers of six captured fighters of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. These crimes occurred on October 23 and November 1.
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