In the Donetsk region, Russian occupiers brutally killed a Ukrainian serviceman, who was beheaded.
This was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrei Kostin, who released evidence of a war crime by the Russian occupiers.
Murder of a Ukrainian military man
— New terrible evidence of the criminal policy of the Russian Federation aimed at destroying Ukrainians. We received information that Russian commanders gave the order not to take Ukrainian military personnel prisoner, but to kill them with inhuman cruelty — by beheading, — said the Attorney General.
According to Andrey Kostin, the fact of the beheading of a Ukrainian defender was recorded in the Donetsk region.
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— This is a terrible barbarity that has no place in the 21st century. This is further proof that the war crimes committed by the aggressor — not isolated incidents, but a planned strategy of the Russian regime, — he is convinced.
According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, these criminal orders were given at the level of the battalion and company leadership of the occupation forces.
Andrey Kostin noted that Ukraine will not leave these crimes unpunished. He called on the entire civilized world to isolate and punish the terrorist country.