Ukraine rights envoy urges response to alleged execution of captured troops

Dmytro Lubinets says helium sent letters to the United Nations and the International Red Cross regarding alleged killings.

Ukraine’s quality rights ombudsman has urged planetary organisations to respond to an allegation that respective Ukrainian prisoners of warfare were executed successful Russia’s Kursk region.

DeepState, a Ukrainian battlefield investigation tract adjacent to Ukraine’s Defence Ministry, said that Russian troops killed 9 Ukrainian “drone operators and contractors” connected October 10 aft they had surrendered.

Dmytro Lubinets said connected Sunday that the planetary assemblage “must not crook a unsighted eye” to the alleged executions.

The ombudsman wrote connected Telegram that helium had sent letters to the United Nations and the International Red Cross astir the incident, referring to it arsenic “another transgression committed by the Russians”.

Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Andriy Kostin besides said his bureau had opened a transgression probe into the alleged execution and said sidesplitting prisoners of warfare was a “gross violation” of the Geneva Convention.

“We are doing our utmost to place and prosecute each those liable for the aggressor’s crimes committed against Ukraine and Ukrainians,” Kostin wrote connected X.

There was nary contiguous remark from Russian officials connected the allegations.

(Al Jazeera)

The assertion comes arsenic Russian and Ukrainian troops commercialized attacks successful the Kursk portion aft Ukrainian forces burst crossed the borderline successful a astonishment onslaught connected August 6.

In aboriginal September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces controlled much than 1,300sq km (500sq miles) of Kursk.

However, past week, Russia said its forces had taken backmost respective villages from Ukrainian forces.

Russia’s defence ministry said connected Sunday that Russian forces had attacked Ukrainian troops successful occidental Kursk with glide bombs.

The ministry said the onslaught was directed against a “strongpoint and attraction of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel”.

Separately, the Ukrainian Air Force said its aerial defences changeable down 31 of 68 drones launched by Russia overnight successful the regions of Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy and Cherkasy.

Over the past week, Zelenskyy said Russia launched astir 900 guided aerial bombs, much than 40 missiles and 400 drones against Ukraine.

Zelenskyy pleaded with Ukraine’s allies for much aerial defences to sprout down the precocious influx of Russian weapons.

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