In Donetsk region, the Russians beheaded a Ukrainian defender

In Donetsk region, the Russians beheaded a Ukrainian defender.

Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin announced this.

“The Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine received information that the leaders of one of the units of the Russian army in the Volnova district of Donetsk region ordered not to capture Ukrainian servicemen, but instead to kill them with inhuman cruelty – by beheading. The fact of the beheading of the Ukrainian defender was recorded in Donetsk region,” the Prosecutor General reported.

During aerial reconnaissance at one of the combat positions in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian military discovered a damaged armored vehicle of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. On it was the severed head of a Ukrainian defender.

“This is a terrible barbarism that has no place in the 21st century. And this is another proof that the war crimes committed by the aggressor are not isolated incidents, but a planned strategy of the Russian regime. These criminal orders were given at the level of the leadership of the battalion and company of the occupying forces,” Andriy Kostin emphasized.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine assured that these crimes will not go unpunished and called on “the entire civilized world to isolate and punish the terrorist country.”

Currently, under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office, a pre-trial investigation has been launched into the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

As part of the investigation, all necessary measures are taken to establish the circumstances of the event. The involvement of specific military personnel of the Russian Federation in the commission of this crime is being verified.

Such actions are a gross violation of the articles of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.