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WikipediaRusia continues forming combat units using Ukrainian prisoners of war, which is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. This is reported by the Institute for the Study of War.
It is known that 6 in August the Volunteer Corps of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Russian occupiers had formed the first Ukrainian volunteer brigade, the "Spetsnaz," into which Ukrainian prisoners of war and former servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who, it is emphasized, switched to the side of the invaders, were included.
"Russian military personnel formed this brigade by uniting several irregular so-called volunteer units, including the Maxim Krivonosis and Oleksiy Berest battalions, as well as detachments named after Aleksandr Matrosov, Martin Pushkar, and Slobodskogo, all of which, according to reports, partly consist of Ukrainian prisoners of war or Ukrainian soldiers who, it is reported, switched to the Russian side," the statement clarified.
In particular, one Russian military blogger described that this new brigade is made up of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which deserves attention, considering that using these soldiers in combat is a war crime.
The Institute for the Study of War first recorded a report on the formation by Russian occupiers of combat units involving Ukrainian prisoners of war in November 2022. The most recent example is the Russian battalion "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" with Ukrainian prisoners of war, which in December 2023 operated as part of the Kara Main formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the western Donetsk region.
"The use of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russia in combat formations is likely a violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, which prohibits the use of prisoners of war in hostilities on the side of the force that captured them and states that 'no prisoner of war shall be sent or held in areas where he may be subjected to fire in a combat zone,' and also that prisoners may not be 'assigned to works that are harmful to health or dangerous,'" the analysts recalled.
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