KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia's Kursk region, where Kyiv had launched an incursion in August.
DeepState, a Ukrainian battlefield analysis site close to Ukraine's Defense Ministry, said that Russian troops shot and killed nine Ukrainian "drone operators and contractors" on Oct. 10 after they had surrendered.
Dmytro Lubinets said on Telegram that he sent letters to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding the case, calling it "another crime committed by the Russians."
Later on Sunday, Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Andriy Kostin said that his office had opened a criminal investigation.
Earlier this month, Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine said that Russian troops killed 16 captured Ukrainian soldiers in the partially occupied Donetsk region.
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There was no immediate response from Russian officials.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian air force said Sunday that its air defenses shot down 31 of 68 drones launched at Ukraine by Russia overnight into Sunday in the regions of Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy and Cherkasy. An additional 36 drones were "lost" over various areas, it said.
The air force added that ballistic missiles struck Odesa and Poltava while Chernihiv and Sumy came under attack by a guided air missile. Local authorities didn't report any casualties or damage.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia launched around 900 guided aerial bombs and 400 drones against Ukraine in the past week.
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