Grisly video footage emerged Wednesday displaying Ukrainian forces taking pictures and killing a wounded Russian soldier on a street west of Kyiv.
The footage, verified by the New York Instances, exhibits two our bodies — apparently Russian troopers — mendacity on the street in a pool of shiny purple blood.
The closest soldier, whose jacket is pulled up above his head, could be seen twitching and is heard struggling to breathe.
“He’s nonetheless alive,” a person’s voice says. “Movie these marauders. Look, he’s nonetheless alive. He’s gasping.”
A person to the fitting of the digital camera raises his rifle and fires two pictures into the gasping man’s torso.
The wounded Russian gasps once more, and is shot a 3rd time within the again earlier than he stops shifting.
The digital camera then pans to the our bodies of two different Russian troopers useless within the street. One, with an apparent head wound, has his arms tied behind his again. The opposite seems to be sporting the blue striped shirt of Russia’s elite airborne troops.
The Ukrainian unit isn't recognized within the video, however the scene depicted, and the Ukrainian troopers seen within the footage, seem an identical to these in a video posted March 30.
In that video — which was shared by the Ukrainian information service UNIAN and doesn't depict the killing of wounded Russians — the unit is recognized because the Georgian Legion, a international paramilitary unit combating on the Ukrainian facet.
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“The Georgian Legion continues to assist Ukrainians within the cleaning of the Kyiv area from the ‘liberators,'” the video’s caption reads.
The Ukrainian authorities final month stated it will launch a probe into unverified movies that purported to indicate Ukrainian forces taking pictures captive Russian troopers within the legs.
The authenticity of that footage has but to be independently verified.
“We're a European military, and we don't mock our prisoners,” senior presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych stated on the time. “If this seems to be actual, that is completely unacceptable habits.”
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