Ukraine’s Prosecutor General reported the murders as another Russian war crime, saying: “This is the largest case of execution of Ukrainian POWs on the front line.”
In an unprecedented war crime, 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) were executed by Russian forces to whom they were surrendering in the Pokrovsk district of eastern Ukraine.
The atrocity came to light through a video released on Telegram on Oct. 1.
All this does is make your enemy fight even harder, inflicting even more losses. If they know they will be killed when surrendering, they have literally nothing left to lose and will fight to the bitter end.