Russian forces subjected four Ukrainian prisoners of war to physical abuse including beatings, forced singing of the Soviet song 'Arise, Vast Country', humiliation, death threats, and mock execution by firing near a prisoner's head.

Russian forces subjected four Ukrainian POWs to beatings, forced singing, threats, and mock execution

The abuse occurred in the Kharkiv direction

Russian soldier Valery Avchenkov told an interviewer that of his unit of more than 200 men, only nine survived a Ukrainian gauntlet of artillery and drone strikes in the Kharkiv sector

Ukraine's Ombudsman asked UN and ICRC to investigate videos of alleged abuses of Ukrainian POWs in Kharkiv direction.

A video showing Russian soldiers abusing Ukrainian prisoners of war is circulating on social media, recorded in Kharkiv region. The video shows beatings, humiliation, threats, and an execution imitation.

Such treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war is not an exception but a common tactic for the invaders, constituting a violation of the Geneva Conventions.