Kyiv Says Russia Has Executed 93 Ukrainian POWs Since Start of War

10/08/2024

Ukraine has documented evidence related to the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to a law enforcement official tasked with investigating war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Yuriy Belousov, who heads the Prosecutor-General's Office’s department in charge of investigating crimes committed in armed conflict, provided the latest figure during a live television appearance on October 4. 

"Now we have information about the death of 93 of our soldiers who were executed on the battlefield," Belousov told Yedyniy Novyny, a broadcast that unites multiple Ukrainian television channels. 

In March, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine published a report that recorded the execution of at least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of war in 12 separate cases from December 2023 to February 2024. 

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