Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: A very serious incident
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...which is a reply to the following thread:
Ukrainian soldiers shoot Russian prisoners of war in the legs and afterwards give them a severe beating. At the beginning of the video, there are Russian POWs lying on the ground with bullet wounds in their legs, some of them have got leg bones broken.
It might give the impression that the Russian military were captured after having been wounded. But that's not the case. At the end of the video, we can see Ukrainian soldiers shooting all the newly arrived prisoners through their legs.
Many of them are dying from shock due to the pain right on camera. And all of this is being filmed by Ukrainian soldiers themselves.That post being replied to was started by Maria Dubovikova, a Moscow-based "political commentator" from something called the "Russian International Affairs Council."
CNN has reached out to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for comment. In response, the ministry sent CNN a statement from the Armed Forces chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The statement did not refer directly to the incident, but said, "In order to discredit Ukraine's defense forces, the enemy films and distributes staged videos showing inhuman treatment by alleged 'Ukrainian soldiers' of 'Russian prisoners.'
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