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CNN: US has credible information that Russian military executed Ukrainians who attempted to surrender.

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The U.S. has "credible information that a Russian military unit operating in the vicinity of Donetsk executed Ukrainians who were attempting to surrender, rather than take them into custody," Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack said at the UN on April 27. "If true, this would be a violation of a core principle of the laws of war."

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