Ukraine says it is investigating authenticity of videos of apparent executions of Russian soldiers
The Ukrainian army said on Saturday that it was verifying the authenticity of the videos which Moscow says show that Kyiv executed several Russian soldiers who had surrendered. “Before starting an investigation, there must be a basis for this. We are in the process of establishing whether these videos are fake,” army spokesman Bogdan told AFP. Senyk.
She added that these videos had been “turned over to specialists”, noting that the publication of fake videos had “intensified recently”. Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of “brutally” executing more than ten of its soldiers who had laid down their arms, calling it a “war crime”.
“No one will be able to present the deliberate and methodical assassination of more than ten immobilized Russian soldiers (…), with direct bullets in the head, as a tragic exception”, declared the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In the first video, taken with a mobile phone, a group of men in military uniforms are seen walking out one after another with their hands up from a building into the courtyard of a house and lying face down on the ground. , under the order at gunpoint by soldiers wearing yellow armbands. As a final dark figure appears to the left, the video cuts off abruptly as an explosion sounds.
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