Alleged prisoner shooting investigated

Ukrainian authorities said they were investigating the conduct of Russian troops who appeared in a video that Moscow alleged showed them trying to surrender, then being shot.

Video fragments circulated on social media last week that Moscow alleges show that Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who may have been trying to surrender, after one of the men seemingly refused to lay down his weapon and opened fire.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor-general said a probe has been launched on charges of violating the laws of war over what they said was “feigning surrender and opening fire on the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” by the Russian servicemen.

The move comes after Russian authorities announced their own criminal investigation.