CNN: Intercepted Russian radio orders suggest systematic execution of surrendering Ukrainian POWs
CNN reports voice transmissions telling troops to kill surrendering Ukrainians six separate times.
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Russians shot 5 Ukrainian prisoners, ombudsman says
Russian forces have executed five more Ukrainian prisoners of war, bringing the 2024 toll to nearly double that of the previous two years combined, Ukraine's human rights commissioner reports.
Captured Russian marine reveals executions of Ukrainian POWs ordered by commander
former Wagner mercenary, now serving in Russia’s 155th Marine Brigade, has disclosed to Ukrainian forces the brutal killing of Ukrainian prisoners in Kursk Oblast, allegedly ordered by Russian command.
Russians reportedly execute 16 Ukrainian POWs from two units in Donbas
In October, a video surfaced showing the execution of 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian soldiers in the Pokrovske direction, triggering a criminal investigation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).
Russians show severed head of alleged Ukrainian soldier in video, Ukraine appeals to UN and Red Cross
Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, argued that "Russians use these videos to intimidate and demoralize Ukrainians.” He urgently contacted the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to recognize this incident as a war crime.
Ukraine’s PG office probes 27 cases of 54 POW executions by Russians since 2022
Ukraine is aware of 54 executed Ukrainian POWs by Russian forces since 2022, with 27 criminal cases initiated for war crimes.
This winter, 32 Ukrainian POWs were executed by Russian forces, UN report reveals
Before being executed, one Ukrainian soldier was forced by the Russians to conduct demining work.
Video of ISIS-style execution of Ukrainian POW shared by Russian TG channels
On the evening of April 11, pro-Russian sources shared a video that purportedly shows Russian soldiers executing a…
“They were shot in the back of the head.” Eyewitness account of Russia’s murders of Bucha residents
After Russian troops retreated from Bucha in Kyiv Oblast, devastating images of execution-style murders, mass graves, and dead…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…
How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 1)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…
How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…
107 remains of political prisoners executed by NKVD found in old Lutsk prison (photos)
NKVD - the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to…