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C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 04:56 AM Jan 24

Russian Soldiers Glorify Murdering Unarmed Ukrainian Prisoners

Warning: Some DU-ers may find the photos and video disturbing.
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The Russians were eager to have the slaughter recorded. (Credit: East2West)

Russian soldiers filmed themselves shooting dead six Ukrainian prisoners of war in cold blood, audaciously proud of committing war crimes. Kiev has launched a criminal investigation and reported the sickening killings to the UN and Red Cross, insisting Russia cannot be allowed to brazenly flout the laws of war.



Two Ukrainians kneel just before they are shot in the back. (Credit: East2West)



Three of the other prisoners lay on their fronts in the dirt and watched their friends murdered. (Credit: East2West)



Another soldier is forced to his feet and made to walk away with his hands up before being sprayed with bullets. (Credit: East2West)

The savage Russian soldiers filmed themselves committing the illegal massacres of unarmed Ukrainians in the occupied Donetsk region. The POWs are seen lying face down on the ground in a wooded area next to a temporary hut. The Russians shoot at a drone flying overhead so it doesn't film the heinous crimes they are about to commit.

Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets:

“The Russian army has never been famous for its dignified treatment of prisoners of war, and here it once again demonstrates its helplessness and criminality.”
He has sent details to the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross.
He said: “The lack of responsibility has turned the crime into a systematic one. We cannot turn a blind eye to this. Ukraine needs justice and responsibility for those who commit crimes and do not adhere to any norms.”






These are not the first war crimes Russian soldiers and Wagnerites have committed against Ukrainians. The ICC indicted and issued an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, but this is symbolic. Mongolia, an ICC signatory, did not arrest Putin when he visited Ulan Bator in late 2024. Donald Trump has signaled that he will be sanctioning the ICC to pressure them to remove the indictments against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. After any future ceasefire is reached, there will be a new level of ethnic animus between Russians and Ukrainians following all of this bloodshed thanks to PIFWC Vladimir Putin and his willing accomplices.




Sources:

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3951841-russians-likely-execute-six-other-ukrainian-pows-ombudsman.html

https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-soliders-shot-disarmed-ukrainian-pows-filmed-execution/

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/401849

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
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Mike 03

(18,325 posts)
1. The Russian military is without dignity
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 06:41 AM
Jan 24

When a supposedly first-world military begins to offer up its barbarians and perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity as its heroes, you know it has fallen to the scrap heap of history.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
2. Agree. The US Army prosecuted its own soldiers for war crimes over the years. With Russia this is now SOP.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 07:08 AM
Jan 24

And with Kiev wanting to join NATO and the EU, they won't tolerate war crimes from their soldiers. Putin's megalomania exposed many weaknesses and accelerated the decline of his nation, the opposite of his original goal of a powerful all-Slavic union led by the Kremlin.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
4. Hi 2naSalit. Remarkable that Russia gave us Tchaikovsky, Nureyev, Tolstoy, then Stalin, Beria, and Putin.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 09:53 AM
Jan 24

2naSalit

(96,306 posts)
5. I know!
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 09:57 AM
Jan 24

I see the famous artists as outliers and, perhaps, protesters of their origins. The long term history, though, is of barbaric existence for millennia.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
7. Agree. Who were Russia's leaders? Czars and despots. Catherine the Great and Piotr Viliki were "enlightened."
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:27 AM
Jan 24

The artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and scholars had to survive one awful regime after another.


Good riddance!

mitch96

(15,097 posts)
10. The orcs don't even treat them selfs with dignity or respect. Shooting troops that retreat. They call them
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 08:11 PM
Jan 24

Barrier troops or blocking units. If you have seen the movie "Enemy at the Gates" you see this in action...
Officers taking their troops pay. Sending meat wave attacks with no or little results with no regard for the hundred that die.. Uff no wonder why some ruzzian troops shoot their officers...
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C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
8. This is a sickening and appalling tragedy. The Ukrainians will get justice one day. The Mossad finally got
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:32 AM
Jan 24

Adolf Eichmann after 15 years.

mitch96

(15,097 posts)
9. I can easily see how Ukrainian troops would retaliate to this atrocity. They capture ruzzian troops and treat them like
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jan 24

human beings. What a concept!! Real mensches in spite of the orcs being devils...
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C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
11. Update: Via OSINT, the Ukrainians apparently identified the main perpetrator: a drug addict.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:04 AM
Jan 25

Oleg Yakovlev, Storm unit, 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade

Video shows him being beaten for being a drug addict. Drugs make it easier to kill people.

Source:


https://www.kyivpost.com/post/45997
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