Law enforcement officers are investigating 49 cases involving the murder of 124 Ukrainian prisoners

The rapid increase in cases of murders of Ukrainian defenders by the Russians during their capture began at the end of last year and reached an unprecedented scale. The largest number of cases were recorded in the Donetsk region.

Denys Lysenko, head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Conditions of Armed Conflict, Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, reported this.

Yesterday, two more cases of murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war during their surrender were registered in the Donetsk region. These events took place on October 23 in the eastern part of the city of Selidove, when three prisoners of war were killed, and on November 1 near the village of Vyshneve of the Selidov territorial community, when three more prisoners of war were shot by the Russians.

“We are currently analyzing all these cases, looking for patterns and regularities. And now we are already building cases against representatives of the high command of the Russian Armed Forces, who, in our opinion, may be involved in the organization of such crimes or in the failure to take measures to stop them and punish the guilty. Therefore, we consider all these cases comprehensively and the participation of this or that armed unit is, of course, analyzed by us in each specific case. But this does not relieve the commanders of their responsibility,” said the head of the Department of Combating Crimes Committed in Conditions of Armed Conflict of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.