LUGANSK, November 21. /TASS/. The international community will pay lip service to the Ukrainian army’s massacre of Russian prisoners of war in the village of Makeyevka, the Svatovo district of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the speaker of the LPR’s legislature, secretary of the Lugansk regional office of the United Russia party, Denis Miroshnichenko, told TASS on Monday.
"I am sure that the world of double standards that now exists is bound to last. No matter how hard we try to seek the truth, no matter how hard we may try to explain the truth, the so-called world community will turn a blind eye to this, as always, or, perhaps, it may pay lip service to the condemnation of these actions," he said.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Monday, Russia will independently search for those who executed the Russian prisoners of war. They must be found and punished, Peskov stressed.
"Russia will do everything possible within the framework of international mechanisms in order to draw attention to this crime and bring those who may be involved in it to justice," he stated.
On November 19, LPR ombudswoman Viktoria Serdyukova called on international human rights organizations to thoroughly investigate the massacre.
On Friday, the press service of Russia’s Investigative Committee said that the IC had opened a criminal case over the mass execution of captured Russian prisoners of war by the Ukrainian military. Criminal proceedings were launched after video footage surfaced in which the Ukrainian military shot at least 11 unarmed Russian POWs, seized on the territory of the LPR.