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The UN human rights mission in Ukraine said on Wednesday it was “horrified” by a video circulating online of an alleged decapitation Ukrainian prisoner of war
“One of the videos shows the brutal execution of a man who looks Ukrainian prisoner of war”, the mission said in a statement, which was described as “terrible.” The mission mentioned a second recording, which “shows mutilated bodies, apparently Ukrainian prisoners of war.”
The video, which is 1 minute 40 seconds long and has been circulating online since Tuesday, shows a man in camouflage clothing with his face covered inflicting neck injuries on another, wearing a uniform, lying on the ground and screaming. !”.
After a few seconds, the screaming stops and the man behind the camera can be heard inciting the executioner in Russian to “cut off his head.” This ends decapitation with a knife and at the end shows his head to the camera.
“We must put it in a bag and send it to the commander,” the voice says in Russian. The camera also zooms in on the victim’s vest, which features the trident of the Ukrainian shield; and skull.
reaction in Ukraine
The president UkraineVolodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to the video by calling Russian troops “beasts” who, he condemned, kill “easily”.
“How easily these beasts kill! This is a video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war, the world must see. This is a video of Russia as it is,” Zelensky said in a message posted on Instagram.
“It’s not an accident […] This has happened before. So it was in Bucha. Thousands of times,” he added, referring to the Kyiv outskirts, which has become a symbol of atrocities attributed to the Russian army. “Jail terms for murderers, tribunal for the state of evil,” he said.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba denounced the video, “a horrific clip of Russian military beheading a Ukrainian prisoner of war,” and felt that Russia was “worse than the Islamic State,” a jihadist organization that filmed the executions of its hostages. usually by decapitation.
“Russian terrorists must be driven out of Ukraine and the UN and held accountable for their crimes,” he wrote on Twitter.
Russia asks to check the video
The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed that a video being broadcast on social media that allegedly shows Russian soldiers decapitation still Ukrainian military should be “verified”.
“First, you need to check the authenticity of the images,” – said the representative of the agency. Russian PresidencyDmitry Peskov in his daily press conference.
Peskov acknowledged that these are “terrible” pictures, but insisted on studying their authenticity.
“This may give rise to find out whether this really happened, and if so, who did it and where,” he added.
“Yesterday, a video of the Russian occupiers appeared on the network, demonstrating their bestial character, in which a man is brutally tortured. Ukrainian prisoner whose head was cut off,” the official statement of the Ukrainian special services, published on their Telegram channel, says.
The video of the beheading circulated on Russian social media and was discovered by an American television company. CNN along with another similar, later recording, in which the corpses of two decapitated Ukrainian soldiers. (According to EFE and AFP)
Source: RPP
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