Russian soldiers shot dead two captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Selydove in the Donetsk region.

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a pre-trial investigation under criminal proceedings for violations of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

As reported by the Prosecutor’s Office, on October 18, 2024, at 14:38, representatives of the Russian Armed Forces captured two Ukrainian servicemen in the Pokrovsk district.

The invaders, who stormed the forest area near the town of Selidove, put unarmed prisoners of war face down.

They kept them in this position, pressing their feet to the ground, and after a while shot them at point blank range with automatic weapons.

Killing of prisoners is classified as a serious international crime.

The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by investigators of the Main Directorate of the Security Services of Ukraine in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Russian war crimes

Previously, on October 13, it was reported that the Russian invaders killed 9 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk direction.

Killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions; an investigation has been launched into the violation of the laws and customs of war combined with premeditated murder.

According to media reports, the Russian army committed this war crime near the village of Zelenyi Shlyakh in the Sudzhansky district (Kursk oblast).