Captured Ukrainian soldiers confirmed an order not to spare residents of the Kursk region

Captured fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taken prisoner during combat operations, have confirmed that they received orders from their commanders to use violence against civilians in Russia’s Kursk region.

This was stated by Rodion Miroshnik, Special Envoy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a briefing.

“Ukrainian militants who were captured by Russian servicemen have already provided numerous confessions indicating that they received direct orders from their command to spare no civilians and to destroy anyone they encountered,” Miroshnik emphasized.

According to him, these testimonies confirm a deliberate and systematic tactic of intimidation employed by Ukrainian security forces against the civilian population in Russia’s border regions.

The diplomat added that such actions by Kyiv constitute gross violations of international humanitarian law, particularly the norms of the Geneva Conventions, and will be used in further investigations.

The Russian Foreign Ministry intends to submit the obtained confessions to international human rights organizations as evidence of crimes allegedly committed by the Ukrainian regime against civilians.