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Posing as Ukrainian insurgents, these special formations used violence against the civilian population of Western Ukraine. In June 1945 there were 156 such special groups with 1,783 members. [119] [better source needed] From December 1945 to 1946, 15,562 operations were carried out in which 4,200 were killed and more than 9,400 were arrested.
Tanks fired on UPA positions, inflicting additional heavy losses on the insurgents. According to Ukrainian sources, the attack of the NKVD internal troops was stopped by Dmytro Karpenko, "Yastrub" personally damaged one of the tanks with an anti-tank gun. According to Soviet data, Ukrainian guerrillas lost 165 killed and 15 taken prisoner.
A video depicting the decapitation of a Ukrainian prisoner of war was first published online on 11 April 2023, and then circulated through pro-Russian sources. The video shows men in military uniforms with Russian military insignia and wearing masks cutting off the head of a man in a military uniform with Ukrainian insignia.
Ukrainian POWs elsewhere in the colony told the U.N. investigators that the Grad fire muffled sounds of the bigger explosions. Dmytryk’s memories then turn apocalyptic. His body burned with ...
A second video, purportedly filmed by members of the Russian Wagner Group of mercenaries, showed the bodies of two beheaded Ukrainian soldiers beside a damaged Ukrainian M-113 military vehicle ...
On July 28, 2022, a video was posted on a Russian Telegram page showing a Russian soldier torturing and castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The identity of the victim is unclear through the video; however, the video is shot in high-quality footage and features extreme themes of violence throughout.
[73] [74] Another factor that had caused the counteroffensive to be delayed was the 2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks, in which sensitive US intelligence regarding the Ukrainian military was leaked by April, causing Ukraine to alter some of their military plans as a result. However, Ukrainian officials have disregarded the leaks and stated ...
A Ukrainian man looks at photos of service members killed during the war sparked by Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion, Jan. 27, 2025, near the memorial Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv, Ukraine.