The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, called on the international community to immediately react after another shooting of an unarmed Ukrainian serviceman in the Volnovakha district of Donetsk region. He made a corresponding statement to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The Ombudsman reported this on Telegram.
He noted that on April 11 of this year, three soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were performing combat missions at one of the positions in the Volnovakha district. They were captured by the occupiers. After that, one of them was shot, violating the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which is a grave international crime.
"I have already sent letters to the UN and the ICRC. The international community's actions and reaction must be here and now! The crimes of the Russians must be recorded, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice! It is necessary to put pressure on the Russian Federation so that the arbitrary policy of executions of Ukrainian prisoners stops!", Lubinets emphasized.
He also called on citizens to contact the Ombudsman if they have witnessed or have any information regarding violations of the rights of Ukrainian citizens or executions of Ukrainian servicemen. The hotline is open at 0800 50 17 20.
As "Apostrophe" told, earlier in The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded to a video of the execution of four prisoners of war by Russian occupiers, published by the Associated Press.