They were without weapons: the occupiers shot two prisoners of war near Pokrovskoe, – OGPU

The fate of two more Ukrainian defenders who performed tasks in the group is currently unknown.

Russian occupiers shot two captured Ukrainian defenders. The war crime was recorded yesterday in the Pokrovsky direction , the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reports .

According to operational data, on the morning of May 22, the invaders stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near the village of Udachne, Pokrovsky district, where four Ukrainian servicemen were performing combat missions. During the offensive, representatives of the aggressor state captured two defenders, after which they shot them unarmed in a forest strip with machine guns.

It is noted that the fate of the other defenders is currently unknown.

Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, a pre-trial investigation has been initiated in criminal proceedings on the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of people (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Urgent investigative (search) actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in the commission of the specified crime.

The intentional killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime, the prosecutor’s office emphasized.

The occupiers are executing prisoners.

As UNIAN reported, numerous executions of captured Ukrainian soldiers by the Russians are already known . At the same time, the Russian occupiers often shoot videos of their crimes and distribute them on social networks.

Since late August 2024, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented 29 episodes in which Russian soldiers killed at least 91 incapacitated Ukrainian soldiers.

As of the end of last year, the Prosecutor General’s Office had officially recorded over 100 cases of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian occupiers, but in reality the numbers could be much higher, said then the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets.

(C)UNIAN 2025