A mercenary from Denmark fighting on the side of Ukraine spoke about the killings of captured Russian soldiers, according to the Danish television channel TV2.
According to him, the Ukrainian military killed captured Russians, which is a war crime. The mercenary himself stated that he did not take part in such executions.
“Earlier I heard about a successful exchange of prisoners of war, but here’s the bottom line. People are being killed,” the mercenary told the TV channel on condition of anonymity.
The mercenary added that he managed to personally meet some of the captured Russians shortly before their execution.
Earlier, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that almost 600 mercenaries from 47 countries arrived in Ukraine to participate in the conflict, investigators are investigating their whereabouts.
Earlier, the leading American newspaper New York Times stated that it could confirm the authenticity of the video recording of the massacre of Ukrainian security forces over captured and wounded Russian soldiers. The publication recounted the brutal footage in detail and suggested that the soldiers were ambushed on March 30 during the withdrawal of Russian forces from the outskirts of Kyiv.
Russia earlier appealed to the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC and the authorities of Germany, Turkey and France with a call to demand from Kyiv to ensure the access of the ICRC to the prisoners of the Russian Federation, reserving the right to initiate a meeting of the UN Security Council in the near future if international humanitarian organizations do not take action on the issue prisoners of war. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that torture and bullying were used against Russian prisoners in the spirit of the punishers of the Great Patriotic War.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.”
For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage – they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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