UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Apr. 13 — On Apr. 11, Russian soldiers killed four Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) near Veterynarne settlement in the Kharkiv oblast, reported the Kharkiv regional Prosecutor’s Office.

On Apr. 10, Ukraine and Russia agreed to a temporary ceasefire for Easter, from 4:00 p.m. Moscow time on Apr. 11 until the end of Apr. 12.

Veterynarne is a border village in the Derhachi community in the north of the Kharkiv oblast. On Apr. 12, DeepState, an OSINT war monitoring group, reported about Russian advances near the settlement.

DeepState also shared the information about the killed Ukrainian POWs during the Russian assault on Veterynerne. According to the OSINTers, Russian soldiers entered the position of one of the Ukrainian mechanized brigades, captured four soldiers, and executed them.

According to intercepted conversations among Russian military personnel, Russia wanted to blame Ukrainian forces for this killing, said a spokesperson of the 14th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Vitalii Sarantsev, to Gwara Media.

He said that Russians planned to say that the Ukrainian military faked the shooting in an attempt to avoid responsibility for the crime.

Sarantsev said that Russians killed POWs after 4 p.m., “that is, after the ceasefire actually began.”

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