A report finds that Russian troops committed 79 executions in the last six months or so. The United Nations has expressed “alarm” over a sharp rise in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian armed forces. According to a report published on Monday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, 79 executions took place in 24 separate incidents since August 2024. “Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of the Russian armed forces were shot dead on the spot,” the report said. The mission obtained footage and photographs published by both Ukrainian and Russian sources documenting the dead bodies. Interviews with witnesses were also conducted, and incidents were geolocated and matched to areas where Russian forces were operating. The UN mission also documented the execution of a “wounded and incapacitated” Russian soldier by the Ukrainian troops. (…) “Combined with broad amnesty laws, such statements have the potential to incite or encourage unlawful behaviour,” Bell added. The report emphasises that under international humanitarian law, calls for “no survivors” after the war are prohibited, with no mercy orders being a “serious violation” of international humanitarian law and a “war crime”.
via aljazeera: Russia accelerating executions of Ukrainian POWs: UN
siehe auch: UN reports ‘alarming rise’ in Russia executing Ukrainian soldiers “Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of the Russian armed forces were shot dead on the spot,” a monitoring mission says. Russian armed forces have reportedly killed an “alarming” number of captured Ukrainian troops, the United Nations’ Human Rights Monitoring Mission said on Monday. The U.N. mission said there had been “a sharp rise in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian armed forces,” with 79 killed in 24 separate incidents since the end of last August. (…) To come to its findings, the U.N. mission obtained and analyzed videos and photos released by sources on both sides showing executions or corpses, and also conducted in-depth interviews with witnesses. “Geolocated and chronolocated incidents indicate that the reported executions took place in areas where Russian offensive operations were underway,” the mission wrote in its statement. Danielle Bell, the head of the U.N. mission, said “these incidents did not occur in a vacuum,” noting that public figures in Russia have explicitly called for inhumane treatment and execution of captured Ukrainian military personnel.