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Ukrainian Forces Capture Russian Soldier Accused of Executing POWs in Kursk Region
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on January 19 that Ukrainian forces had captured a Russian serviceman who was responsible for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia’s Kursk region in October last year, according to his statement on January 19.
Zelenskyy said he received a report from a first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Oleksandr Poklad, and described the detention as the capture of “the Russian serviceman responsible for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war.”
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“Every Russian murderer must be held accountable for their actions. And so it will be,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Ukraine was also countering what he described as Russian sabotage in the rear and thanking the Security Service of Ukraine for protecting citizens.
Zelenskyy’s statement came amid a series of Ukrainian investigations into alleged executions of captured Ukrainian soldiers in frontline areas.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office stated on December 29 that Russian troops had shot dead two Ukrainian servicemen after capturing them during an assault on Ukrainian positions in the village of Shakhove in the Pokrovsk district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region on December 27, adding that investigators had opened a war-crimes case.
In another case, the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on November 22 that it had opened a criminal investigation into the alleged execution of five unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war near the settlement of Kotlyne in the Pokrovsk district on November 19, after Russian troops captured them during an assault and then shot them.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal investigation into the execution of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces in the Kursk region, treating the killings as a severe violation of the laws and customs of war.
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