INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Updates with comments and backgroundThe Russian Defence Ministry on Friday accused Kyiv of executing at least 10 prisoners of war in what
Moscow said constituted a "war crime," the latest allegation of abuses after nearly nine months of fighting in Ukraine.Moscow's claims come
after the UN this week published a report saying prisoners of war on both sides had been subjected to torture and ill-treatment."No one will
be able to paint the deliberate and methodical murder of more than 10 restrained Russian soldiers ..
who were shot in the head, as a 'tragic exception,'" the ministry said in a statement.The statement came as videos circulated on
Russian-language social media that purport to show the bodies of Russian servicemen who had surrendered and were then killed.One video shows
soldiers apparently surrendering to several military personnel in camouflage and wearing yellow armbands
The soldiers who are giving themselves up lie down on the ground in the debris-filled backyard of a house.The video then abruptly cuts off
as shots are heard.Another video filmed from above shows the bodies of around a dozen people surrounded by apparent blood stains.It has not
been possible to independently verify the authenticity of the videos and the Russian Defence Ministry did not say when the footage was
shot.Russia's Human Rights Council said the alleged executions took place in the village of Makiivka, in the Luhansk region of eastern
Ukraine, which the Ukrainian army said it recaptured this week."We will ask for a reaction and an investigation from the international
community," Human Rights Council Chairman Valery Fadeyev said on social media.The ministry claimed that the videos represent "new evidence
of a massacre of unarmed Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian military personnel," and said that "the brutal murder of Russian prisoners of
war is not the first and not the only war crime" committed by Ukrainian forces.Moscow also accused Ukraine's Western allies of turning a
the statement read.There was no immediate response to the allegations from Ukrainian officials.The allegations from Moscow come a day after
a Dutch court sentenced two Russian men and a Ukrainian to life imprisonment over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine
