Incidents

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation deliberately shot prisoners of war in the eyes of the Drones of the Armed Forces - NYT

To spread: the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation commit crimes against the Ukrainian military, without worrying that they are removed by the drones of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian and international human rights activists are talking about an increasing number of shootings and tortures, while the United States of America is leaving the investigative commissions, the New York Times wrote.

The crimes of the Russian Federation during the war in Ukraine are referred to in the NYT article. Journalists explored a video of one of the shootings recorded by the Ukrainian drone. The truth of the recording was confirmed by analysts at the Center for Information Resilience, which investigates military crimes.

The event took place near the village of Novoivanovka of the Kursk region, and the Armed Forces fighters who saw it on the video from the UAVs felt "rage and a strong desire to take revenge," the media wrote. "Russia is executed by prisoners of war without taking care of who is looking. Filming of drones allow Ukraine to observe how military crimes are unfolding in real time," the journalists of the Ukrainian soldiers cried. The media spoke with five operators of the Armed Forces drones.

The operators reported a video from the battlefield where the Russians shot prisoners. In addition, such records are filled with the Telegram messenger, added NYT. Journalists noted that the military of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and do not think to bury their crimes, although the Kremlin denies the incidents.

"Although Russian officials deny the commission of war crimes in Ukraine, some Russian soldiers seem to be so indifferent to the possible consequences that have published their own videos of murder of naked Ukrainians," the article reads. NYT lists several cases of shootings that have explored and confirmed international investigators: 16 people on September 30 near Pokrovsk, 9 people on October 10 near Kursk, 6 people in January in Donetsk.

On August 2024, the UN Monitoring Mission Chairman of the UN Monitoring Mission has documented 91 victims of Russian soldiers. "It's terrible. And these are only cases that we have appreciated as reliable and reliable," the Belle journalists cited. The Ukrainian Ombudsman reported 177 prisoners of war, who were shot dead by the Russians during the three years of the war, 109 of them in 2024, NYT wrote.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian OSINT Company "Molfar" added that during the first months of 2025 the victims became more. According to the head of the company Artem Staroseko, 25 more Ukrainian fighters were killed. It should be noted that in January 2025, Focus wrote about the crime of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian military who were captured in the Kursk region. The Dnipro Region media published staff from social networks and indicated the name of one of the victims.

As the media wrote, the video of the military got 82 brigades of the Armed Forces. In February, The Financial Times reported that he had identified one of the Russians who participated in the executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war. According to investigators, it is a fighter of the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 32-year-old Oleg Yakovlev.