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Related: About this forumRussian Soldiers Glorify Murdering Unarmed Ukrainian Prisoners
Warning: Some DU-ers may find the photos and video disturbing..

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:
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

Mike 03
(18,325 posts)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)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.
2naSalit
(96,306 posts)Always have been. It's their eternal claim to fame.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)
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)The artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and scholars had to survive one awful regime after another.
Good riddance!
mitch96
(15,097 posts)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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mitch96
(15,097 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Adolf Eichmann after 15 years.
mitch96
(15,097 posts)human beings. What a concept!! Real mensches in spite of the orcs being devils...
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C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)
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