KYIV. March 8. UNN. The spokesman of the US State Department, Ned Price, said that the department is aware of the video of the shooting of an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war. It is reported UNN with reference to CNN.
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“The terrible footage of the execution of an unarmed Ukrainian after he pronounced “Glory to Ukraine” is simply astonishing in its barbarity. We believe that Russia should be ashamed of itself,” he said.
Price added that the filmed atrocity of the Russian troops shows how the Russian Federation “neglects the basic rules of war, elementary humanity, elementary decency.”
“Unfortunately, this is probably not the last case recorded by our Ukrainian partners regarding potential war crimes, of which there are now tens of thousands,” the representative of the State Department emphasized.
We will remind
On March 6, a video of a new atrocity of the occupiers, where they shot an unarmed Ukrainian soldier, who did not show aggression and simply said “Glory to Ukraine”, spread on the Internet.
The Ombudsman of Ukraine, Dmytro Lubinets, sent a video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war for the words “Glory to Ukraine” to international partners and fellow ombudsmen from different countries of the world as confirmation of yet another Russian war crime.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin announced the start of an investigation into the shooting of an unarmed man.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, called on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, to immediately start an investigation into the shooting of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by the Russian occupiers for saying “Glory to Ukraine”.
In his traditional video address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi promised that Ukraine would find the killers of the Ukrainian serviceman who was shot by the Russian occupiers.
The “Servant of the People” faction in the Verkhovna Rada will initiate awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine to a Ukrainian soldier shot by the Russian occupiers.
According to reports, the family recognized the soldier.
Later, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that the identity of the Ukrainian soldier shot by the Russian occupiers for saying “Glory to Ukraine” had been previously established.