Russia Commits War Crime Amid Easter Ceasefire.

Kyiv; April 2026: The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office published footages, and has reported on April 12th that Russian forces executed four Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) on April 11th after entering Ukrainian positions near Veterynarne (north of Kharkiv City).

Ukrainian 14th Army Corps (AC) Spokesperson Vitaliy Sarantsev reported on April 12 that Russian forces launched an assault near Veterynarne after 14:00 hours (local time) on April 11, ahead of the ceasefire, and that the assault lasted several hours and resulted in the seizure of Ukrainian positions. The spokesperson emphasised that Russian forces shot the unarmed Ukrainian servicemembers after the start of the ceasefire at 16:00 hours (local time). The execution of POWs is a war crime that violates the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of POWs.

The Ukrainian General Staff has reported on April 12th that Russian forces violated the ceasefire at least 2,299 times as of 07:00 hours local time on April 12, including launching 28 ground assaults, 479 artillery strikes, 747 Lancet loitering munitions and Molniya fixed-wing first-person view (FPV) drone strikes, and 767 other FPV drone strikes. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian forces did not carry out missile, guided glide bomb, or Shahed long-range strike drone strikes after the start of the ceasefire.

Ukrainian officials reported on April 11 and 12 that Russian forces continued artillery and FPV drone strikes after the start of the ceasefire in the Lyman and Pokrovsk directions and in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. Sumy Oblast officials reported that Russian forces conducted a drone strike against an ambulance in Hlukhivska Hromada, Sumy Oblast, overnight on April 11 to 12, injuring three medics. Ukrainian officials also reported that Russian forces conducted Molniya drone strikes in Kharkiv Oblast that damaged a store and injured two civilians in Zolochiv and damaged buildings in Klynova-Novoselivka and Odnorobivka, and that a Molniya drone fell in a garden in Derhachi on April 12 but did not result in casualties.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed on April 12 that Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire 1,971 times between the start of the ceasefire at 16:00 hours (local time) on April 11 and 08:00 hours (local time) on April 12, including launching eight ground assaults in Sumy, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts; 258 artillery strikes in border areas and against Russian positions; and 1,329 FPV drone strikes. Kursk Oblast Governor Alexander Khinshtein claimed on April 11 that Ukrainian forces conducted a drone strike against a gas station in Lgov, Kursk Oblast, injuring three civilians, after the start of the ceasefire. Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov claimed on April 11 that a Ukrainian drone strike injured two civilians in Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast. Gladkov did not mention a time in his claim, but Russian milbloggers claimed that the strike violated the ceasefire.

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