Russians execute Ukrainian prisoner of war in Novohrodivka

The Russian invaders have committed another war crime by executing an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war with his hands tied with duct tape.

Dmytro Lubinets, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, reported this.

The Ombudsman has already sent letters to international organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations (UN), to record another human rights violation by Russia.

He also called on the world to respond to another war crime by the invading military.

“The level of barbarism and bloodthirstiness is impossible to comprehend. Such actions are a gross violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War! How much longer will the world watch Russia openly demonstrate disregard for any norms and laws?” Lubinets emphasized.

The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights also added that such demonstrative crimes of the Russian occupiers are aimed at demoralizing Ukrainian society.

Photos of the killed Ukrainian soldier with a sword in his chest and the inscription “For Kursk” were posted online. There is a noticeable difference in the two published photos: one shows tape on the arm of the killed soldier, while the other is retouched, but there is a shadow of it. The presence of the tape indicates that the soldier was alive and may not have been injured before the execution.

OSINT researcher @moklasen on Twitter (X) discovered this happened in Novohrodivka, Donetsk region. It happened at the intersection of two streets at the entrance to the city from the eastern side, from where the invaders stormed the Ukrainian settlement.

According to the invaders with the call sign Euro, the 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade from the Samara region was operating in this area, which, according to him, hit an armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, as can be seen in the pictures released by the invaders. In addition, the 433rd Regiment of the 27th Division, as well as the 810th Assault Detachment, participated in the fighting in this area on the side of the Russian invaders.

In September, the American CNN TV channel released a video showing the execution of three Ukrainian soldiers by Russians. The video was filmed during the fighting in late August near the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

In the published drone footage, the soldiers are seen coming out of a trench into the middle of the road and kneeling with their hands behind their heads. A few seconds later, the Russians kill them, and they are already lying motionless, face down.

Sources in Ukrainian intelligence provided the American TV channel with a list of 15 cases of such executions of prisoners with video and audio evidence.