According to him, this may be evidenced by a video that is distributed in social networks and which shows how “a person was tied to a motorcycle and dragged along the road.”
Lubinets emphasized that this is a demonstrative cruelty and another military crime of the Russian Federation, violating the norms of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
The Ombudsman emphasized that he had already sent official letters to the United Nations and the International Red Cross Committee.
“Russia acts as a terrorist state. And for each crime, a fair responsibility must bear,” he wrote.
Context
Russian invaders have repeatedly shot Ukrainian defenders who surrendered to them. According to Ukrainian law enforcement officers, the most massive known case of execution recorded in the fall of 2024 in the Pokrovsky direction near the villages of Nikolaevka and Dry yard Donetsk region. Then the invaders They shot 16 military personnel.
On October 6, the 12th Azov Special Assembly of the National Guard of Ukraine reported that the fighters captured one of the Russians who shot a group of Ukrainian military near New York, Donetsk region. He said that his commander had received a team “Do not take anyone in captivity,” because “never to bother with prisoners”.
On October 8, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said that the ISS could take up cases of executions of the Ukrainian military.
In general, from the beginning of a full -scale invasion to July last year, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General, Russian invaders executed at least 110 Ukrainian military (since then reported new cases of the murders of captured by the Russians).
UN Monitoring Mission to Human Rights in Ukraine from late August 2024 to early February 2025 recorded 79 executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war in 24 separate incidents.
On May 21, CNN, with reference to the head of the Department of Combating the crimes committed in the conditions of an armed conflict, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Belousov, reported that as of May, 75 criminal investigations were opened on suspicion in the executions of the invaders of 268 Ukrainian prisoners of war.
