Russia #executes 2 Ukrainian #POWs near Pokrovsk
#Russian troops took 2 of 4 #Ukrainian soldiers prisoner & later shot them dead with automatic weapons in a nearby forest. The fate of the other two #soldiers remains unknown.
“The deliberate killing of prisoners of war is a gross #violation of the #Geneva Conventions and is qualified as a serious international #crime,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.