CNN has geolocated a contemporary video that looks to turn the execution of a Russian prisoner by way of Ukrainian forces following fresh preventing within the Kyiv area.
The video — first verified by way of the New York Instances — displays a bunch of squaddies with Ukrainian patches and blue arm bands on a street following a firefight. The our bodies of no less than 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 every other. The frame stops transferring.
An individual narrating to the digicam then turns to movie a Russian infantry preventing car with a “V” marking very similar to that noticed on Russian army {hardware} operated by way of many devices in Ukraine. “A bit trophy,” the person says.
Somebody off digicam 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 seemed on a pro-Russian Telegram channel, is unclear. The positioning of the video suits that of a video printed 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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