Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan

Mala Rohan is located in Ukraine
Mala Rohan
Mala Rohan
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Location of Mala Rohan in Kharkiv Oblast, in Ukraine

The torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan was an incident during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the village of Mala Rohan. As documented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, members of Ukrainian armed forces shot the legs of three captured Russian soldiers and tortured Russian soldiers who were wounded.[1] The incident is likely to have occurred on the evening of March 25, 2022[2] and was first reported following the publication on social media of a video of unknown authorship between March 27 and March 28.[3] As a case of summary execution and torture of prisoners of war, the incident might qualify as a war crime.[3]

  1. ^ SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ARMED ATTACK BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 24 FEBRUARY — 15 MAY 2022 (PDF) (Report). OHCHR. 29 June 2022. page 35. Retrieved 4 December 2022. OHCHR is particularly concerned about two documented cases of summary execution and torture of Russian prisoners of war and persons hors de combat reportedly perpetrated by members of Ukrainian armed forces.47 In the first case, members of Ukrainian armed forces shot the legs of three captured Russian soldiers and tortured Russian soldiers who were wounded in the Kharkiv region
  2. ^ "Prisonniers russes torturés : des vidéos vérifiées par « Le Monde » mettent en cause un bataillon de volontaires ukrainiens". Le Monde (in French). 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. ^ a b "Ukraine: Apparent POW Abuse Would Be War Crime". Human Rights Watch. 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-05-09.