The video — first verified by the New York Occasions — exhibits a gaggle of troopers 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 on the pavement. Three of them have head wounds and blood is pooled across the physique of a fourth, who has a jacket pulled over his head and appears to be rasping.
“He is nonetheless alive,” says one man, in Russian. “He is gasping.”
A soldier factors a rifle and fires two pictures on the physique, pauses, then fires one other. The physique stops transferring.
An individual narrating to the digicam then turns to movie a Russian infantry preventing automobile with a “V” marking just like that seen on Russian navy {hardware} operated by many items in Ukraine. “Just a little trophy,” the person says.
Somebody off digicam says, “Slava Ukrayini!” — glory to Ukraine, a patriotic greeting, and a bearded man steps within the body and replies, “Glory the heroes,” the usual reply.
The precise time and date of the video, which appeared on a pro-Russian Telegram channel, is unclear. The placement of the video matches that of a video printed on Twitter by Ukraine’s Ministry of Protection. That video, posted on April 2, exhibits a blasted Russian armored column. “Handiwork of Ukrainian defenders within the Kyiv area,” the caption reads.
A special video of the scene, filmed from a special angle, appeared on the Telegram channel of UNIAN, a Ukrainian information company, on March 30. It exhibits the identical bearded man and the caption says the video exhibits the Georgian Legion, a gaggle of volunteers preventing on the Ukrainian facet, in an operation to clear the Kyiv area of Russian troops.
Requested in regards to the video at a NATO press convention in Brussels, Ukrainian Minister of International Affairs Dmytro Kuleba mentioned, “I have never seen it. I heard about it. I wish to reassure you that Ukrainian military observes the principles of warfare.”
Kuleba added, “There is likely to be remoted incidents of the violation of those guidelines and they are going to be undoubtedly investigated. However I needed to double test the date of this of this video, since you ought to perceive one factor now (or) you’ll not perceive it. I am sorry, however you do not perceive the way it feels after seeing photos on Bucha. Speaking to individuals who escaped, figuring out that that individual you understand was raped 4 days in a row. And when she lastly made it to Kyiv, she was straight taken to the psychiatrist.”
“This isn’t an excuse to those that violate the principles of warfare on both facet or the frontline,” Kuleba continued. “However there are some issues which we merely cannot perceive.”
