Ukrainian POW Executed with Sword Inscribed 'For Kursk', Kyiv Officials Report

Ukrainian authorities launch investigation into alleged war crime, urging international response.

A Ukrainian prisoner of war was reportedly executed with a sword inscribed with the words 'for Kursk', according to Kyiv officials.
Photographs show the victim's body with hands bound and a sword impaled in the chest, located in Novohrodivka, Donetsk region.
Ukraine's human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, described the act as barbaric and incomprehensible.
Authorities have launched an urgent investigation and informed international bodies like the UN and Red Cross.
The incident is part of a broader pattern, with 28 criminal cases opened into the alleged executions of 62 Ukrainian POWs.