On Nov. 9, Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets stated that a video circulated online showing the latest instance of Russian troops executing a Ukrainian Soldier.
In a Telegram post, he said: “The occupiers are cruel and cynical to the limit.”
“The Russians shot a seemingly wounded, unarmed Ukrainian Soldier. They captured it in a video which is now spreading online.
Lubinets announced that he would write a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.N.
“This is a violation to the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law as well as laws and customs in war,” he said.
Lubinets has not specified when or where this video was recorded.
A senior representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office stated earlier this week that Kyiv is aware of 124 Ukrainian POWs (Prisoners of War) who were executed on the battlefield by Russian forces throughout the full-scale conflict.
Ukrainian authorities receive regular reports of murders, torture and ill treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of War. These reports have increased in recent months. The majority of cases were reported in the embattled Donetsk Oblast.
Denyslysenko, head of the war crimes department, told national television that 49 criminal investigations are underway in relation to the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Prosecutors reported on November 5 that the most recent cases included the killing of six captured Ukrainians near Pokrovsk, in Donetsk Oblast.
“We are now analysing all these cases and looking for patterns… We consider all these cases comprehensively, and the involvement by a particular armed group is, of course analyzed in every case,” Lysenko stated.
According to him, prosecutors have built cases against representatives of Russian military leadership that may be involved in the organization of such executions or failure to take preventive measures.
Former Prosecutor-General Andriy Kostin described the killing of Ukrainian soldiers in captivity as a “deliberate Russian policy”.
In 2024, about 80% of the cases involving the execution of Ukrainian POWs have been recorded. However, the trend started to emerge in November 2023 when “there was a change in attitude of Russian military staff towards our prisoners of warfare for the worse,” Yurii Belousov said, a senior official of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The shortage of ammunition in Ukraine has been a concern for many years, but it has gotten worse this year.
After the Russian invasion of February 2022, Ukraine began actively developing their missile program.
A senior adviser to Donald Trump said that Ukraine needed to be “realistic in its goals for war” and added that the peninsula of Crimea, which was occupied by Russia, was “gone.”
British defense intelligence estimates that Russia has suffered more than 696,00 losses since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
The memorandum will establish over 100 industrial park across Ukraine, affecting the lives of 2,5 million citizens and helping to create “hypermodern” cities.
“The dialogue between the President Zelensky, and President-elect Trump, has already been established,” Sybiha stated in Kyiv during a press conference held with Josep Borrell, chief diplomat of the European Union.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on November 9 that Ukraine had attacked seven Russian regions, including Tula Oblast, with 50 drones. Moscow claimed to have shot down all 50 drones including two that were over Tula Oblast located south of Moscow.
Syrskyi stated that the targets included 221 radio equipment pieces, 129 artillery systems and more than 4, 000 Russian troops.
According to the Telegraph, the U.S. will supply weapons to Ukraine in order to prevent Moscow from relaunching the war. The sources said that in exchange for the weapons, Ukraine would agree to not pursue its ambition to become a member of NATO for 20 years.
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The claim comes at a time when Ukraine has intensified efforts over the last few months to strike deep into Russia with homemade drones. These drones have been targeting airfields, oil refineries, and arms depots to weaken Russia’s combat capabilities.
Borrell said in a post on social media on X that EU support had always been his “personal priorit” and should remain at the top of the agenda for the bloc.
The report comes after Ukraine’s Air Force announced that Russia attacked Ukraine with 51 drones overnight, and that the southern Odesa Oblast served as the “epicenter.”
This includes 1,660 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
“We still get quite a bit of LNG via Russia and from Russia,” she told Donald Trump in a telephone call. “And why not substitute it with American LNG which is cheaper and brings down our prices?”
Anton Sopov, 21 and Stanislavrau, 28 were found guilty of the murder of a family of nine people, including two children in the occupied Donetsk Oblast. This is a rare case where Russian authorities have held their own troops accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine.
The Russian General Pavel Klimenko (47) led the 5th Donetsk Motorized Rifle Brigade. The brigade was accused of torturing pro Kremlin U.S. Blogger Russell Bentley to death.
Russian authorities are seeking to sentence Dr. Nadezhda Bkanova, a pediatrician from Lviv in Ukraine, to six years in prison for criticizing Russia’s actions against Ukraine during a private meeting.
The Sumy Oblast Military Administration reports that on November 8, Russia attacked 12 communities within Sumy Oblast, injuring 8 people.
According to Ukrainian officials interviewed by The Guardian on November 7, the relationship between the U.K.
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