The Russian soldiers shot nine Ukrainian POWs in the Kursk sector

13 October, 2024 Illustrative photo. A war crimes prosecutor stands near a damaged residential building after a missile strike in Odesa region, Ukraine, on June 1, 2022. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Russian invaders committed another war crime by shooting nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk sector.

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported on this. The Office of the Prosecutor General has opened a criminal investigation into the alleged shooting of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk region. The killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and an international crime.

An investigation has been launched into the violation of the laws and customs of war combined with premeditated murder. On October 13, 2024, Telegram channels reported on the alleged shooting of nine Ukrainian servicemen by the Russian Armed Forces soldiers.

Executed Ukrainian servicemen. Photo credits: Deepstate

According to the media, another war crime was committed by the Russian army near the village of Zelenyi Shlyakh, Sudzhansky district.

"We are doing everything we can to identify and punish all those responsible for the crimes committed by the aggressor country against Ukraine and Ukrainians. Such actions are a gross violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War! I have once again sent letters to the UN and the ICRC regarding another crime of the Russians," Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.

On September 24, it was reported that the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry into violations in Ukraine has found new evidence of the widespread practice of mass torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by Russians. The Russian authorities use torture against Ukrainians both in the temporarily occupied territories and in Russia itself. The report states that the wide geographical coverage and widespread patterns of torture against Ukrainians demonstrate that torture was carried out as a common and acceptable practice with a sense of impunity.

It is noted that the Commission's further investigation of torture cases shows that the Russian authorities used torture in the regions of Ukraine that they currently temporarily control. Also, the new evidence confirms the Commission's previous conclusion that "torture committed by the Russian authorities was widespread." "The Commission has identified additional common elements in the use of torture by Russian authorities, reinforcing its earlier finding that this was systematic.

One element is the consistency of violent practices imposed in detention centers where detainees from Ukraine have been held in the Russian Federation, and the replication of these practices in several large penitentiary centers in occupied areas of Ukraine," the report says.