KYIV – Ukraine’s human rights commissioner urged the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to analyze a picture extensively shared on-line on Saturday that he mentioned doubtless confirmed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war killed and dismembered by Russian forces.

Ukraine’s prosecutor common mentioned individually that an pressing investigation had been launched into info being unfold on social networks concerning the homicide and dismemberment of a Ukrainian POW.

“A photograph, probably of a Ukrainian prisoner whose head and limbs were cut off by the Russians, has appeared online,” Dmytro Lubinets, the nation’s main human rights official, mentioned in a submit on the Telegram messaging app.

“In view of these horrific images, I have urgently appealed to the ICRC and the UN to record yet another human rights violation by the terrorist country,” Lubinets wrote.

Andriy Kostin, the prosecutor common, mentioned an pressing investigation had been launched. “Russia consistently repeats the crimes of the Nazis, defiantly showing utter contempt for all norms of the civilised world,” he wrote on Telegram.

Russia denies torture or different types of maltreatment of POWs.

A United Nations fee of inquiry on Ukraine mentioned in a report revealed in March that it had documented credible allegations of executions of no less than 32 Ukrainian POWs in 12 separate incidents from December 2023 to February, and that it had independently verified three of the incidents.

The three-member Fee of Inquiry mentioned it had additionally gathered extra proof that Russia had systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs, documenting rape threats and the usage of electrical shocks on genitals.

It mentioned the dimensions of such torture instances might quantity to essentially the most critical abuses referred to as crimes in opposition to humanity, describing their incidence as “widespread and systematic”.