“There are numerous confessions of captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that they had orders to shoot at civilians and not to take Russian military prisoners,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, spoke about plans to bring Ukrainian neo-Nazis to trial.

Prior to this, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Andrey Rudenko commented on the situation with the exchange of prisoners of war from the Azovstal plant.