Russians shot two captured Ukrainian soldiers

Russian occupiers in the village of Shakhove, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, shot two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were taken prisoner.

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

“On December 27, 2025, during the assault on positions in the village of Shakhove, Pokrovsky district, representatives of the aggressor state captured two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were performing a combat mission at one of the positions. The occupiers, threatening with firearms, forced one of them to partially undress, after which they shot both disarmed defenders. Seeing that the prisoners of war were dead, they also took off the clothes of the second already killed defender,” the report says.

The deliberate killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime, the Prosecutor’s Office emphasized.

Urgent investigative (search) actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the incident and the persons who committed the specified crime.

The Prosecutor’s Office has launched a pre-trial investigation into the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of a person (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

We will remind you that south of Hulyaipol, Russian soldiers shot dead 3 soldiers of the Defense Forces of Ukraine . The incident occurred on December 20, 2025, during an attempt by a Ukrainian unit to take over abandoned positions.