NYT confirms footage of Ukraine soldiers committing war crime
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The New York Times validates footage showing Ukrainian soldiers killing Russian servicemen near Kiev, and the act itself is a war crime as it is the killing of prisoners of war.
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Ukrainian soldiers near the frontline in on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, March 28, 2022 (AP)
A video showing Ukrainian soldiers executing injured and captured Russian soldiers has been confirmed by the New York Times.
The video in question is one showing Ukrainian soldiers opening fire against a Russian serviceman lying - seemingly lifeless - on the pavement.
"A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv," NYT said.
Several bodies could be seen near the Russian soldier's, showing no signs of life and presumably killed at the hands of Ukrainians.
The New York Times reported that the video was filmed on March 30, as the Russian forces were withdrawing from the Ukrainian capital.
Who's committing war crimes?
The bodies nearby looked like they had been killed after they were imprisoned by Ukrainians. One of the soldiers had a head wound that could be clearly seen, and his hands were tied behind his back as he was lying face down on the pavement.
There were bloodstains near each soldiers' head, and if it is what it seems to be - the killing of prisoners of war - then this constitutes yet another flagrant war crime committed by the Kiev regime's forces.
They appeared to have had their jackets, shoes, or helmets removed, but they were wearing camouflage and the white armband usually worn by Russian soldiers.
The soldier that the Ukrainians were shown to be shooting in the footage had a jacket pulled over his head and was visibly wounded, with blood near and around him. It seemed like the soldier was gasping for air, shivering as he was likely bleeding out.
Footage:
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There were four men in total, but the amount of blood on the scene makes it seem like there were at least double that were killed in the area.
The video has been reportedly filmed just north of the village of Dmytrivka, and just down the road, the footage showed destroyed or heavily damaged Russian equipment, and it is suspected that the war crime took place following a Ukrainian ambush on a Russian column on or around March 30.
Despite attempts from Kiev to dodge the blame, the NYT confirmed that the soldiers are Ukrainian, as the Ukrainian Defense Ministry had announced the destruction of the Russian convoy by its forces.
"Not even human"
The deep-rooted hate goes beyond just the killing of the soldiers, as one Ukrainian, while walking between the corpses, said, "These are not even humans." The Ukrainians dehumanizing their rivals while the Russians feed and provide theirs with their basic necessities upon capture reflects the creeds of both parties.
At the beginning of the war, the Russian forces had captured an Island in the Black sea, and Kiev claimed that Moscow's soldiers killed all the Ukrainian soldiers on the Island. However, the border guards laid down their arms voluntarily and were taken in by the Russians, provided with food, medical attention for those who needed it, and other basic necessities.
16 ships of the Ukrainian navy used "swarm tactics" to attack the Russian Black Sea Fleet vessels during the evacuation of 82 Ukrainian border guards that had voluntarily laid down their arms on Zmiinyi Island, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said following the evacuations.
"The goal of this attack was mainly the revenge on Ukrainian soldiers who had laid down their arms, as well as the pretext to accuse the Russian army of killing prisoners," he clarified at the time.
Ukraine, despite its numerous acts of aggression, is constantly shifting the blame on Russia with no tangible proof, even in major tragedies such as the Bucha one.
Russia's Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, had said that with regards to the shelling of Bucha, Ukraine's authorities were shifting the blame, as the civilian casualties may have occurred as a result of an attack by Ukrainian forces.
The US is being deliberately silent on the fact that the shelling of the city happened at the hands of Ukrainian forces after the pullout of Russia's forces from the city, he added.
Ukraine published footage it claimed showed evidence of crimes committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha, a town in Kiev, and the Russian Ministry of Defense said they were yet another provocation.
Russia has been pushing for the UN Security Council to meet on the Bucha crime it is attributing to Ukraine, and the UK moved to block Moscow from taking the stand against Kiev.
Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy revealed that the allegations were false, and he reminded the United Nations that Moscow had warned that the hospital the allegations were surrounding had become a military site at the hands of radicals.
