Posted on 05/02/2024 10:05:48 AM PDT by MeganC
(Kyiv, May 2, 2024) – Russian forces appear to have executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers as they attempted to surrender, and possibly six more who were surrendering or who had surrendered, since early December 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. These incidents should be investigated as war crimes.
“Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its forces have committed many heinous war crimes,” said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch. “The summary execution – or murder – of surrendering and injured Ukrainian soldiers, gunned down in cold blood, expressly forbidden under international humanitarian law, is also included in that shameful legacy.”
Human Rights Watch investigated three instances of the apparent summary execution of at least 12 Ukrainian soldiers by verifying and analyzing drone footage posted on social media on December 2 and December 27, and on February 25, 2024. In these cases, the soldiers demonstrated a clear intent to surrender and, since they were no longer taking part in hostilities, were considered hors de combat and not targetable under international humanitarian law, or the laws of war.
Human Rights Watch verified the location of two of the three incidents based on the footage, but due to the lack of geographic details in the videos, was unable to determine the exact location of the third. Human Rights Watch was unable to verify which party operated the drone that captured the footage in these cases.
Human Rights Watch investigated a fourth instance by analyzing another video clip posted on social media on February 19 showing two Russian soldiers executing three surrendering and unarmed Ukrainian soldiers. Although the account that posted the clip stated the location of the incident, Human Rights Watch has not been able to verify the location independently.
For the fifth incident, the investigation relied on an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, a video posted to a Telegram channel on February 16, and in-depth media coverage including interviews with family members of one of the victims. The information suggests that six soldiers were executed in the incident, though the circumstances were less clear.
In one of the five incidents, on February 25, verified drone footage shared widely online including on X (formerly known as Twitter) shows at least seven Ukrainian soldiers exiting a dugout among some trees between two fields, removing their body armor, at least one soldier removing their helmet, and all lying face down as five Russian soldiers aim their guns at them. The Russian soldiers are identifiable by distinctive red tape markings around the arms and legs. Three Russian soldiers then shoot toward the clearly surrendered Ukrainian soldiers from behind and both sides.
Six of the Ukrainian soldiers remain face down, visibly reacting to the impact of the shots, while one attempts to reenter the dugout but is shot before he is able to. The incident took place near Ivanivske village in the Donetska region. The location was first verified by EjShahid, a volunteer for GeoConfirmed, and subsequently confirmed by Human Rights Watch researchers.
(More at the link)
You should stick to the US/Mexico border topics if that’s the only thing you care to comment or focus on.
I let it be known that I wouldn’t waste so much as a single Band-Aid on any NVA. General Sherman was right.
“Remember when the ukrainians killed surrendering russians and the zeepers said “orcs deserved it”?
I do.”
You remember this? Good. Please post the link.
“Meanwhile, when thousands of black Christians in Nigeria get slaughtered by Islamist, no one cares.”
Utterly wrong. Here’s several FR posts on the subject:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=nigeria
Their unbiased accuracy and totally complete overall investigations make them "Legends".
In their own minds.
It’s okay.
Russia is an invading benevolent force.
They mean well.
Those Ukrainian soldiers would have just been obstacles on the way to a better Ukraine, so, they had to be sacrificed for the better good.
Always accuse your enemies of what your doing. It’s what you liberal zeeper freaks do all the time. Russians don’t execute prisoners or use their own civilians as human shields, Ukrainians and zeepers do.
—”Ukraine trying to discourage their troops from not surrendering.”
Possible.
Now please explain this:
Russian Officers Killing Their Own Wounded, Say Captured Soldiers in Video
Not new for Russians, Solzhenitsyn wrote of mass shipments of disabled Russian veterans sent to the Gulag.
They were a drag on Stalin’s post-war economy.
In war, a severely wounded needs two or more to transport, and the Russians abandon their dead and murder the badly wounded.
How will this play out when Ivan goes home and word gets out of how he heroically murdered most of his squad?
No logical argument can be used to make them realize that Ukraine is but a distraction for the Pavlovian Americans that react without thought, when aggression is put forth by Russia, even if it be justified. Because for them Russia cannot be justified for securing it's national security.
However, when the US national security is threatened, it's okay for the US to invade the aggressor. But the invasion of this country is not important because it's not a single nation state involved in the invasion along our borders, it's just poor people who want a better life in their dysfunctional minds.
They just do not get that Russia/Ukraine is a distraction to take their eyes off of what is happening in this country.
Basically they are stupid people who really do not have the brain capacity to see reality other than what others tell them is the reality.
Post 61 corrects you on that, it wasn’t executing a prisoner.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4184909/posts?page=61#61
Sound like the kind of propaganda story they put out to discourage surrendering.
Exactly...
Not quite what you were saying. But if that’s what gets your hate going then fine.
So fight to the death or don’t get in the way of others.
So you claim.
It’s the same thing.
Quite.
Note how they’re justifying the death of the guy surrendering in this thread in their responses to my mentioning it.
Quite telling
I’m not the one who gets a thrill from death.
“So fight to the death or don’t get in the way of others.”
That’s the message getting sent here.
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