The Security Service of Ukraine served a notice of suspicion to a captured invader of shooting a Ukrainian prisoner of war in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The SSU press service reported about this on Friday, March 8.

The Ukrainian intelligence service also released a photo of a captured Russian soldier.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported that it had collected evidence against another Russian invader who shot a Ukrainian POW.

The invader was Dmitry Kurashov, a repeatedly convicted shooter of the Storm-V assault unit of the 127th Motor Rifle Division of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation.

“According to the investigation and military counterintelligence of the SSU, on January 6 this year, Kurashov shot and killed a soldier of Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was captured by the Russian troops during the “meat” assault of the Russian Federation. He made at least 3 aimed shots at the captured Ukrainian soldier,” the statement said.

Soon, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked invaders and captured Kurashov and other Russian military.

“During interrogation by the SSU, another captured Russian soldier ‘ratted out’ Kurashov, and later the Security Service of Ukraine collected other indisputable evidence of the Russian soldier’s guilt in the murder of a captured Ukrainian soldier,” the SSU said.

SSU investigators served Kurashov with a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder).

The Russian soldier is currently in custody. The investigation is ongoing to establish other facts of the invader’s involvement in war crimes. The offender faces life imprisonment.

As previously reported, the General Prosecutor Office of Ukraine launched an investigation into the execution of three Ukrainian POWs by Russian invaders near Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region. Russian soldiers committed the war crime on February 18, 2024.

It should be emphasized that the killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and is classified as a serious international crime.