The wounded, who showed signs of life, were finished off by the Russian invaders at point-blank range with machine gun fire.
The Russian military shot 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the direction of Pokrovsky. This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General on Tuesday, October 1.
It was noted that today information appeared on Telegram channels about the alleged execution of 16 Ukrainian servicemen by representatives of the Russian Armed Forces. The Russian army committed another war crime in the area of the villages of Nikolaevka and Sukhoi Yar, Pokrovsky district.
The video released shows how, under the control of the enemy, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, captured, came out of the forest plantation. After they lined up, the invaders deliberately fired at them. The wounded, who showed signs of life, were finished off at point-blank range with machine gun fire.
“This is the largest known case of the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the front line. And this is another evidence that the killing and torture of prisoners was not an accident, but a deliberate policy of the military and political leadership of Russia,” said neither. Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin.
An investigation has been launched into another war crime by the Russian army.
Let’s recall that earlier the Russians killed an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war with a sword.
Near Rabotinoy, in the direction of Zaporozhye, the Russian military brutally shot two Ukrainian prisoners of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Source: korrespondent
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