In its analysis of footage from five incidents since December 2023, HRW said Ukrainian soldiers were “gunned down in cold blood”, constituting a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions.
Russian forces have allegedly executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers who were attempting to surrender since the beginning of December 2023, according to a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report.
The US-based organisation called for the five analysed instances of alleged executions to 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 HRW.
Killing surrendering soldiers is insanely stupid because then everyone will fight to the end since surrendering is pointless. But no surprise from Putin’s
prison crewarmy.Can’t remember the sun tzu quote - effectly give the enemy a better options than fighting you.