Russia is executing Ukrainian prisoners as a war policy, a shocking discovery that reveals war crimes and a broad breakdown in command and control of its military, according to a report.

Amid escalating rhetoric between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Trump seeks a diplomatic solution to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, the head of Ukraine’s war crimes department is warning of “priority number one” being allegations of war crimes and systematic executions of prisoners of war.

“It’s definitely part of the policy,” Ukraine war crimes chief prosecutor Yuriy Belousov told the Financial Times. “It’s a system that we see.”

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