“Today, we again heard unfounded and unfounded accusations against Russian servicemen who are doing their duty as part of a special military operation in Ukraine.

We resolutely reject these insulting and unfounded insinuations, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Kuzmin noted that this is part of the unprincipled information struggle on the part of Ukraine and its Western patrons against Russia.

He focused on the fact that one of the tasks set as part of the campaign to denigrate the image of the Russian military is to hide real cases of sexual violence by Ukrainian radicals against civilians in Donbass since 2014.

Earlier, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to open a criminal case into the murder of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian nationalists.

The video captures the moment of the execution of a dying Russian prisoner, and one of those killed had his hands tied behind his back, which indicates that the soldier died while already in captivity.