A Ukrainian court has handed a life sentence to Russian soldier Dmitriy Kurashov for the execution-style killing of a prisoner of war, marking the first conviction of its kind since the conflict began. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office reports that as of early May, it had launched 75 criminal probes into the suspected execution of 268 Ukrainian POWs, with the number rising each year of the war. The UN human rights mission in Ukraine reported in February that it had evidence of 79 executions by Russian troops since the previous August.
Author: Bob Cronin with Newser.AI
Published at: 2025-11-06 22:59:00
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