A team of Ukrainian military drone operators were allegedly shot dead by Vladimir Putin’s forces after they had surrendered in a shocking new war crime.
Nine drone pilots and their associates are seen in their underwear after being killed, according to multiple sources.
The men had been surrounded by Russian forces in the Kursk region and laid down their weapons, Ukraine’s 1st Separate Tank Brigade says.
Killing prisoners of war is a war crime, and there is now an alarming warning that such cold-blooded slaughter by Putin’s soldiers is happening “almost daily.”
Ukrainian Telegram channel Deep State said: ‘From our sources in the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, it became known that on October 10, the Russians fired on drones and their associates in the area of the village of Zeleniy Shlyakh.
‘More details of the circumstances are becoming clear, but it is known that the boys entered the position thinking they were in the relative rear, but were already forced into contact with the enemy and fired.
Nine drone pilots and associates seen in their underwear after being killed
The men had been surrounded by Russian forces in the Kursk region and laid down their weapons.
Conflict Intelligence Team founder Ruslan Leviev (pictured) warned: “The situation with executions of prisoners of war is becoming almost daily”
“However, their ammunition was limited and they were forced to surrender.”
Dmytro Lubinets, Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine, said: “Information about the possible shooting by the Russians of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk region is spreading again on social media.
“These actions constitute a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.”
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‘about another crime committed by the Russians.
‘These actions must not go unpunished and the enemy must assume full responsibility.
‘Russia is a terrorist country that violates all the rules and customs of war.
Ukrainian servicemen of the 33rd Brigade maintain their Leopard 2A4
A Ukrainian serviceman from the 30th Artillery Brigade checks the ammunition of 2S3 Akatsiya 152
“The international community should not turn a blind eye to such crimes.”
The gruesome aerial image comes amid alarming analysis by independent, open-source intelligence analysts that Russian killings of prisoners of war have become almost routine.
Conflict Intelligence Team founder Ruslan Leviev warned: ‘The situation with executions of prisoners of war is becoming almost daily.
‘Before we could not affirm that it was some kind of strategy.
‘It was quite possible to say that these were isolated incidents at the level of individual groups.
“Now materials are being collected that will allow us to demonstrate more convincingly that (executions of prisoners by Russian troops) are becoming widespread.”
