The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office reported that Russian troops killed six captured Ukrainian Armed Forces Soldiers near Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast.
Ukrainian authorities receive regular reports of murders, torture and ill-treatments of Ukrainian prisoners of War.
On October 23, Russian forces captured three Ukrainian soldiers and shot them dead unarmed during an offensive against the town of Selydove.
The Prosecutor’s Office reported that a few days later, during an attack on Ukrainian lines in Pokrovsk, Russian soldiers shot and killed three more Ukrainian prisoner of war.
The Prosecutor General’s Office emphasized that these actions violated the Geneva Conventions, and qualify as international crimes.
The Security Service of Ukraine has launched a pre-trial inquiry into the incident that occurred in Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast.
On Oct. 15, the then-prosecutor general Andriy Kostin called the killings of Ukrainian servicemen held in captivity by Russia a “deliberate” policy.
Yurii Belousov said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies had information about the killing by Russian soldiers of at least 93 Ukrainian prisoner of war.
Belousov stated that 80% of the executions of Ukrainian POWs were recorded in 2024. However, the trend started to emerge in November 2023 when “there was a change in attitude of Russian military personnel toward our prisoners of War for the worse”.
Both countries have exchanged prisoners frequently since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The most recent exchange took place in mid-October. Each side brought back 95 prisoners.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Nov. 5 that Russian troops shot six captured Ukrainian Armed Forces Soldiers in the Pokrovsk Sector of the Front Line in Donetsk Oblast.
Due to the activation by electronic warfare systems when air raid alarms sound, users in Ukraine are experiencing more frequent automatic time change on their smartphones.
The statement was signed by South Korea as well as Australia and New Zealand.
According to preliminary data, Moscow attacked the Shevchenskyi area with a drone of the type Shahed at around 5 p.m. local.
According to Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, the clashes were not large-scale.
In a statement released on the eve before the election, U.S. Intelligence agencies predicted that Russia would intensify its efforts to undermine the U.S. election on election day. They would focus on swing states.
Bloomberg reported that the United Kingdom was unable to retrieve weapons from floating armories, which offered weapons and accommodation to guards protecting Russian oil tankers.
According to reports, Russian forces targeted an infrastructure facility and started a fire. The full extent of the damage is still being determined.
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said: “She is not the president of her own country, as far we understand. The majority of the country’s population did not vote her.”
Politico reported that the European Union‘s antifraud agency has opened an investigation into possible exports of rebranded Russian crude oil via Turkey to the EU. The report was based on two unnamed sources.
Ukrinform reported that the recruitment center for the Ukrainian Legion in Poland had received more than 500 applications from Ukrainians in 30 different countries in just one month, citing officials at the center.
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said on November 4 that the country aims to narrow the voting eligibility for local elections in order to exclude Russians and Belarusians in order to counter Russian influences.
Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, the authors of this complaint, said that the ruling set a precedent to better protect voting secrecy.
Overnight, Russia launched 79 drones of the type Shahed and other drones as well as guided bombs as well as two Kh-59/69 air missiles.
The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported separately on Nov. 4 that Russia may be behind the dispatch of flammable packages via freight planes in Europe as preparations for similar operations to take place in North America.
Krzysztof Gawakowski, Polish Deputy Premier, said that Zelensky wanted Poland to fire missiles over Ukraine. This meant he wanted Poland to join the war.
The renaming was prompted by “changes in geopolitical reality,” such as the “obvious degradation of multilateral collaboration structures in Europe,” said Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian state-owned news agency RBK.
The Russian forces have suffered 1,260 casualties in the last day alone.
On Nov. 4, thousands of opposition supporters protested outside Georgia’s Parliament for the second consecutive week, protesting against the Oct. 26 elections, which they claim were rigged by Russians to favor the ruling Georgian Dream Party.
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