Russia accelerating executions of Ukrainian POWs: UN – INA NEWS

The United Nations has expressed “alarm” over a pointy rise in reported executions of Ukrainian troopers captured by Russian armed forces.

In keeping with a report revealed on Monday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, 79 executions happened in 24 separate incidents since August 2024.

“Many Ukrainian troopers who surrendered or had been in bodily custody of the Russian armed forces had been shot useless on the spot,” the report stated.

The mission obtained footage and images revealed by each Ukrainian and Russian sources documenting the useless our bodies. Interviews with witnesses had been additionally performed, and incidents had been geolocated and matched to areas the place Russian forces had been working.

The UN mission additionally documented the execution of a “wounded and incapacitated” Russian soldier by the Ukrainian troops.

‘Warfare crimes’

Russia and Ukraine have traded accusations of committing warfare crimes, together with the killing of captured personnel, since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Danielle Bell, head of the UN mission, stated such incidents don’t “happen in a vacuum”, noting that public figures in Russia had beforehand publicly known as for “inhumane therapy and even execution” of Ukrainian troopers.

“Mixed with broad amnesty legal guidelines, such statements have the potential to incite or encourage illegal behaviour,” Bell added.

The report emphasises that below worldwide humanitarian regulation, requires “no survivors” after the warfare are prohibited, with no mercy orders being a “critical violation” of worldwide humanitarian regulation and a “warfare crime”.

“All allegations of execution of captured Ukrainian navy personnel and public statements calling for, or condoning, such actions should be investigated,” stated Bell.

Final month, Ukraine’s Prosecutor Normal’s Workplace opened a legal case in opposition to Russia after footage emerged of Russian troopers executing six Ukrainian troopers in Donetsk.

“The capturing of prisoners of warfare is a critical violation of the Geneva Conference on the Therapy of Prisoners of Warfare and is classed as a grave worldwide crime,” the assertion learn. “Investigative actions are at the moment being performed to determine all of the circumstances of the crime and the individuals concerned in its fee.”