Recent reports from volunteers who wanted to fight alongside Ukrainian armed forces, have made claims, yet to be verified, that Ukrainian soldiers have been executing Russian prisoners of war.
One such volunteer, a Danish soldier who uses the pseudonym Jonas, alleged that Ukrainian soldiers executed Russian prisoners, saying: “I have heard of one successful prisoner exchange, and that’s it,” and adding: “People are being killed.”
Jonas told state-owned Danish broadcaster TV2 that he joined to fight alongside Ukrainians because he is a marksman. Jonas said he had killed Russian soldiers, but not Russian prisoners.
The Dane told the broadcaster that they had captured an 18 year old computer programmer fighting for Russia – who was buried the next day after Ukrainian soldiers killed him.
The broadcaster said there was no way to verify what Jonas had seen, but cited that instances of similar behavior had occurred previously by Ukrainian forces.
The Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, had implied through its Facebook page, that Russian soldiers who surrendered would be executed – of course raising would be a war crime.
“From now on, there will be no more captured Russian artillerymen. No mercy, no ‘please do not kill, I surrender’ will not pass,” the post stated, adding that such Russians would be “slaughtered like pigs.”
The Facebook post was edited and these comments were removed. They then made another post with a video of what they said was a Russian soldier who had been captured and had “killed Ukrainian children with [a] jet fire system” and realized “the horror of what was happening [and] made a wise decision and gave up, falling under the Geneva Convention.”
Quite the backtrack.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky released his own statement, telling Russian soldiers: “On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance. Chance to survive. If you surrender to our forces, we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated. As people, decently.”
Videos have been circulating social media, allegedly showing Russian soldiers being brutally killed by Ukrainian soldiers after they had surrendered.
One video published over the past week, allegedly showed a wounded Russian soldier being killed by a Ukrainian soldier near Kyiv.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, said he was aware of such videos but had not seen them himself and that the Ukrainian military “observes the rules of warfare. There might be isolated incidents of violations of these rules and they will definitely be investigated.”
There is no doubt that there is a huge amount of propaganda happening right now, driven by the mainstream media and facilitated by Big Tech.
There is never an excuse to commit war crimes and such actions will only make the situation far worse than it already is.
2 wrongs don’t make a right , killing prisoners of war is a war crime . Both sides are evil and committing war crimes and we should not get as involved as we are. Joe Biden is using American tax payer money to protect him and Hunters investments in Ukraine and that’s wrong also . FJB LETS GO BRANDON FJB
Let the Russians rape your wife and daughter, then cut them into pieces, murder your mother and father and little boy for amusement. Then let’s see how “humane and civil’ you are.
Easily fixed, don’t give them a chance to surrender.
The last time I looked it was RUSSIA waging the war against the Ukraine not the other way around! There was nothing being said about the attrocities the Vietnamese were committing against US Soldiers!!! When you wage a war against a country you should expect that they will fight back in any way possible to try to win against those attacking them, freedom isn’t free neither is slavery!
After reports of the atrocities the Russians have committed, it’s not surprising. The Russians are barbaric, and Putin targets women and children, schools, hospitals, etc. specifically to inflict mental pain and suffering on the combatants.
GOOD!!!!!
War is hell for both sides!. The USA should not be in any way involved. We have no vested interests. We should not have 26 labs in 20 countries doing CBU research since it was outlawed in the USA. We should could help, homeless, Veterans, and the truly nearly in our own country, instead. This man?in the Whitehouse gives US taxpayers money to cover his and his family’s dealings with various countries.
I don’t blame the Ukrainians for killing the Russians even when they surrender. USA forces did the same against the Germans in WWII. When you’ve watched the enemy slaughter your fellow countrymen carte blanche you lose humanity.