Ukraine is investigating another case of alleged Russian abuse and execution of prisoners of war, human rights officials have said.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian human rights commissioner, sent letters to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday over aerial footage which allegedly showed Russian forces torturing and executing three unarmed Ukrainian POWs in the Donetsk region.
He highlighted that the highest levels of the Russian military command appear to be tolerating Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
The head of the Ukrainian department for combating crimes in conditions of armed conflict, Yuri Bilousov, said last week that Ukraine had evidence indicating that Russian forces have executed 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) on the battlefield since the start of the full-scale invasion - and that 80% of the recorded cases occurred this calendar year
