Ukrainian prosecutors open another investigation — their 38th of the year — into Russian troops executing POWs

Officials in Kyiv have launched an investigation into the killing of five Ukrainian prisoners of war near the town of Petrovka outside Donetsk. Investigators say the executions took place earlier this month when advancing Russian troops forced the soldiers from their hiding place in a private home and then shot them in the street. 

Meduza could not verify the allegations of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, which released drone photography showing five uniformed people lying on the ground outside a building as a sixth man trains a gun on them.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General is currently investigating 53 criminal cases related to the alleged executions of 177 Ukrainian POWs. Most of these reported killings occurred this year. Russia’s Defense Ministry has not commented on these allegations of war crimes committed by its soldiers.