President of Israel Isaac Herzog speaks throughout a ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights on the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Jan. 27. EPA-Yonhap
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has recorded an „alarming rise“ in reported executions of Ukrainian troopers captured by Russian armed forces throughout the battle in latest months, it stated on Monday.
The mission in Ukraine stated it had obtained stories of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents because the finish of August 2024. Worldwide humanitarian legislation prohibits the execution of prisoners of battle and the wounded, and regards it as a battle crime.
„Many Ukrainian troopers who surrendered or have been in bodily custody of the Russian armed forces have been shot lifeless on the spot. Witness accounts additionally described the killings of unarmed and injured Ukrainian troopers,“ the mission stated in a press release.
Reuters has requested remark from the Russian defence ministry and from Ukrainian officers, however has but to obtain any response.
The UN physique obtained and analysed video and photograph materials printed by Ukrainian and Russian sources exhibiting executions or lifeless our bodies and carried out detailed interviews with witnesses.
It stated the reported executions came about in areas the place Russian offensive operations have been underway.
Danielle Bell, head of the mission, stated some Russian officers „have explicitly known as for inhumane remedy, and even execution“ of captured Ukrainian troopers.
The mission stated it additionally documented the execution of a wounded and incapacitated Russian soldier by the Ukrainian armed forces in 2024, however gave no particulars.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s workplace earlier stated it was investigating dozens of instances of executions of Ukrainian army personnel by Russian forces. (Reuters)
