Karina Bovsunovska08:24, 07.08.263 min.72The most recent example was the Russian battalion “Bohdan Khmelnytsky” with Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia continues to form combat units using Ukrainian prisoners of war , which is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Institute for the Study of War writes . In particular, one Russian military blogger reported that this new brigade consists of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which is noteworthy, given that the use of these soldiers in combat is a war crime. The Institute for the Study of War first recorded reports of the Russian occupiers forming combat units with the involvement of Ukrainian prisoners of war in November 2022. The most recent example was the Russian battalion “Bogdan Khmelnytsky” with Ukrainian prisoners of war, which in December 2023 operated as part of the “Cascade” formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in the west of the Donetsk region.