And prominent Russians have publicly called for the execution of captured military ... executions of Ukrainian soldiers in Russian custody in the last six months or so. The UN Human Rights ...

International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded, and regards it as a war crime.

The mission in Ukraine said it had received reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of August last ... the execution of a wounded and incapacitated Russian soldier by ...

UN Body Reports 'Alarming Rise' in Russian Execution of ... incidents since the end of August last year. International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded ...

Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia ... younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300 ...