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.
A lot of us have seen the video evidence of Russians shooting surrendering Ukranians… so yeah.
But the Russians investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong so it’s all good.
It’s important to remember that the same guy who concluded that Russia did not commit any war crimes also concluded that the Russian economy is booming.