Russia #executes 2 Ukrainian #POWs near Pokrovsk

#Russian troops took 2 of 4 #Ukrainian soldiers prisoner & later shot them dead with automatic weapons in a nearby forest. The fate of the other two #soldiers remains unknown.

“The deliberate killing of prisoners of war is a gross #violation of the #Geneva Conventions and is qualified as a serious international #crime,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-executes-2-captured-ukrainian-soldiers-near-pokrovsk-prosecutors-say/

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