Russians execute wounded Ukrainian prisoner, Kiev says

Ukraine said on Saturday it would file a complaint with the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross after a video shared online allegedly showed Russian troops executing a wounded Ukrainian soldier.

“The Russians shot an apparently wounded, unarmed Ukrainian,” wrote Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets on Telegram.

“I am sending a letter to the ICRC and the UN. This is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war,” he added.

In the video that appeared in the Telegram channels on November 9, Russian soldiers are believed to be interrogating a wounded Ukrainian. prisoner. The man says in Russian that he is from the Sumy region, after which the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces ask him where the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers are. One of the Russian soldiers then shoots the lying Ukrainian several times, although other Russian soldiers urged him not to do so. “No, commander, no, Tolya,” they say to the shooter off camera.

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Kyiv Post has not been able to determine where and when this video was recorded.

Lubinets called the case a war crime on his Telegram channel.

“The occupiers know no bounds to cynicism and cruelty! The Russians probably shot a wounded, unarmed Ukrainian soldier. They captured this on a video that is being circulated online. On this occasion, I am sending a letter to the ICRC and the UN. This is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international humanitarian law and the laws and customs of war.”

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