Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin of Ukraine said on X that the alleged execution occurred along the eastern front in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. The date of the incident was unclear. "This is the largest reported case of the execution of Ukrainian POWs on the frontline and yet another indication that the killing and torture of prisoners of war are not isolated incidents,

Russian forces appear to have shot 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Donetsk Oblast, the largest recorded case of mass execution of surrendered soldiers on the battlefield, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said on Oct.

Russian soldiers allegedly shot dead 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war in eastern Ukraine, marking the largest known execution of POWs in the two-and-a-half-year war, Ukrainian prosecutors said Tuesday. Ukraine's prosecutor general’s office said videos circulating on social media appeared to show Russian servicemen committing the war crime near the Donetsk region city of Pokrovsk,

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One of the Telegram channels has released a shocking video showing the execution of 16 Ukrainian soldiers by the Russian army. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has launched an investigation.

Russian military executed 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Pokrovsk direction. This is the largest mass execution case since the beginning of the war, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General on Telegram and the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights,

The statement describes the apparent war crime as a “mass execution” of Ukrainian POWs that were captured near the villages of Mykolaivka and Sukhyi Yar. Initial reports about it started circulating on Telegram earlier on the same day.