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22-12-2024, 01:52 PM
Russia is executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Ukrainian sniper Oleksandr Matsievsky was captured by Russians in the first year of the full-scale invasion. A video emerged showing him smoking his last cigarette in a forest, apparently next to a grave he had been forced to dig." Glory to Ukraine!" he says to his captors. Moments later, shots ring out and he falls dead.
His execution is one of many.
This October this year, nine captured Ukrainian soldiers were reportedly shot dead by Russian forces in Kursk region. Prosecutors investigating case including a photo showing half-naked bodies lying on ground, photo was enough for one of the victims, drone operator Ruslan Holubenko, to be identified by his parents. "I recognised him by his underwear," his distraught mother told local broadcaster Suspilne Chernihiv. "I bought it for him be4 a trip to the sea. I knew that his shoulder had been shot through. You could see that in the picture."
The list of executions goes on. Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating reports of beheadings and a sword being used to kill a Ukrainian soldier with his hands tied behind his back. In another instance, a video showed 16 Ukrainian soldiers apparently being lined up and then mowed down with automatic gunfire after emerging from a woods to surrender.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7ve11lr247o
Ukrainian sniper Oleksandr Matsievsky was captured by Russians in the first year of the full-scale invasion. A video emerged showing him smoking his last cigarette in a forest, apparently next to a grave he had been forced to dig." Glory to Ukraine!" he says to his captors. Moments later, shots ring out and he falls dead.
His execution is one of many.
This October this year, nine captured Ukrainian soldiers were reportedly shot dead by Russian forces in Kursk region. Prosecutors investigating case including a photo showing half-naked bodies lying on ground, photo was enough for one of the victims, drone operator Ruslan Holubenko, to be identified by his parents. "I recognised him by his underwear," his distraught mother told local broadcaster Suspilne Chernihiv. "I bought it for him be4 a trip to the sea. I knew that his shoulder had been shot through. You could see that in the picture."
The list of executions goes on. Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating reports of beheadings and a sword being used to kill a Ukrainian soldier with his hands tied behind his back. In another instance, a video showed 16 Ukrainian soldiers apparently being lined up and then mowed down with automatic gunfire after emerging from a woods to surrender.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7ve11lr247o
