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.
All this does it show the Ukrainian soldiers that they may as well fight to the last man of surrendering also equates to death. Let alone the war crimes aspect of it all.