CNN has geolocated a contemporary video that looks to turn the execution of a Russian prisoner by way of Ukrainian forces following fresh combating within the Kyiv area.
The video — first verified by way of the New York Occasions — displays a gaggle of infantrymen with Ukrainian patches and blue arm bands on a highway following a firefight. The our bodies of a minimum of 4 males in Russian uniform are mendacity at the pavement. 3 of them have head wounds and blood is pooled across the frame of a fourth, who has a jacket pulled over his head and appears to be rasping.
“He is nonetheless alive,” says one guy, in Russian. “He is gasping.”
A soldier issues a rifle and fires two photographs on the frame, pauses, then fires some other. The frame stops transferring.
An individual narrating to the digital camera then turns to movie a Russian infantry combating car with a “V” marking very similar to that observed on Russian army {hardware} operated by way of many gadgets in Ukraine. “Just a little trophy,” the person says.
Any person off digital camera says, “Slava Ukrayini!” — glory to Ukraine, a patriotic greeting, and a bearded guy steps within the body and replies, “Glory the heroes,” the usual answer.
The precise time and date of the video, which gave the impression on a pro-Russian Telegram channel, is unclear. The site of the video fits that of a video revealed on Twitter by way of Ukraine’s Ministry of Protection. That video, posted on April 2, displays a blasted Russian armored column. “Handiwork of Ukrainian defenders within the Kyiv area,” the caption reads.
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