"Russia has officially launched a battalion formed from Ukrainian prisoners of war, on the front line in Ukraine, confirming many obvious violations of Russia by the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of Pursuing," the statement reads. The Russian media "RIA Novosti" and "Russia-1" declared December 28 that it was a matter of fighters of the battalion "Bohdan Khmelnitsky", formed from Ukrainian prisoners of war and subordinate to the formation of "Cascade" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "DNR".
In particular, they participated in battles near the Harvest in Donetsk region. On December 27, Russian journalists stressed that the battalion recruited about 70 Ukrainian prisoners from correctional colonies in the Russian Federation and sent to study before sending to the front in early November.
Analysts have stated that such actions of the Russian Federation are a violation of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the use of prisoners of war in military activity on the side of the country that seized them. In addition, they noted that "no prisoners of war can be sent or kept in places where it can be exposed to fire in the war zone," and should not "be used in works that are unhealthy or dangerous by character.
" The ISW is involved in the "ill-treatment of prisoners of war" is called the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division. On December 27, the UAV staff showed that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation executed three Ukrainian prisoners of war near the robots of the Zaporozhye region, and the footage of December 13 - the Russians used prisoners as a living shield.
We will remind, on November 27, a representative of the coordination headquarters on the management of prisoners of war, Petro Yatsenko told that there will be no benefit from the connection with prisoners of war on the front. According to him, it is the answer to the formation of volunteer battalions in Ukraine from the Russians.
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