Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets today called on international organizations to respond to the claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia's Kursk region, where the Ukrainian army invaded in August.
DeepState, a Ukrainian war analysis site close to Ukraine's defense ministry, said Russian soldiers killed nine Ukrainian drone operators on October 10 after they surrendered.
Lubinec said on Telegram that he had sent letters to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding the case, calling it "another crime committed by the Russians."
Also today, Ukraine's chief prosecutor Andriy Kostin said his office has opened a criminal investigation into the case.
Earlier this month, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office announced that Russian troops had killed 16 captured Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region. There was no response from Russian officials to these claims.
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