On Saturday, May 3, in the Volnovakha district of Donetsk region, Russian occupiers executed three captured servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with automatic weapons. Prosecutors have launched an investigation.
This was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office.
It was established that on Saturday, three Ukrainian servicemen were performing combat missions at positions near the settlement of Novopil. During the assault, the occupiers managed to surround the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russians forced them to lay down their arms and surrender, and then killed them.
"Realizing that the Defense Forces soldiers could not resist, representatives of the Russian Armed Forces shot them with automatic weapons," the report says.
The Prosecutor General's Office stressed that the Russians, by committing the deliberate murder of prisoners of war, grossly violated the Geneva Conventions. Such actions qualify as a grave international crime.
Urgent investigative actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the incident, as well as the persons involved in the crime.
A pre-trial investigation has been launched into the proceedings for a war crime that led to the death of people under Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code.
We will remind, on April 11, three soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Volnovakha district were captured by the occupiers. After which one of them was shot .