New footage that appears to show Russian soldiers beheading a Ukrainian prisoner of war is “not an isolated incident,” according to UN observers. “There is something that no one in the world can ignore: how easily these beasts kill,' Pres. Zelensky said.
The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine wrote on Wednesday:"One of the videos shows a brutal execution of a man who appears to be a Ukrainian prisoner of war, while the other one shows mutilated bodies of apparent Ukrainian servicepersons. Regrettably this is not an isolated incident.
“Let's work, brothers! Cut it the f*** off,” one person said, according to a translation from The Insider, an independent Russian media outlet. “Break his spine! Haven't you ever cut off a f***in' head before? Go all the way.” “First of all, it is necessary to verify the authenticity of this terrible video,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. “And then, of course, this can become a reason to check whether it was so, whether it took place, and if it did, where and by whom exactly. But again, I want to say that first of all, in the world of fakes in which we live now, it is necessary to verify the authenticity of this video.
The videos surfaced one month after the U.N. investigators released a report outlining “a widespread pattern of torture and inhuman treatment committed by Russian authorities” in Ukrainian territories that came under their control. “It is believed that the video was captured by members of the Wagner PMC near Bakhmut,” The Insider reported. “The video depicts a damaged armored vehicle, likely an M113 armored personnel carrier, as well as two decapitated bodies of Ukrainian soldiers.”
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