Ukraine’s leader prosecutor introduced a prison investigation on Monday after pictures emerged of what looked to be Russian troops executing an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of conflict previous this month.
A video circulating on social media confirmed a uniformed Ukrainian soldier status and smoking close to the devastated jap town of Bakhmut. The soldier recited Ukraine’s combat cry, “Glory to Ukraine” simply prior to a volley of gunshots hit him.
He then fell again right into a shallow hollow dug into the bottom.
While the authenticity of the video has but to be showed, the pictures sparked outrage in Kyiv.
The alleged killers weren’t stuck on digital camera and their identities have not begun to be verified.
In his nightly deal with on Monday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelesnkyy promised that justice can be served: “I want us all together, in unity, to respond to his words: ‘Glory to the hero! Glory to heroes! Glory to Ukraine!’ And we will find the killers”.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has additionally voiced his anger for the reason that video went viral.
“Another proof that war is genocidal,” Kuleba tweeted.
Ukraine’s army has recognized the soldier as Tymofiy Shadura and has since introduced that he went lacking on February 3.
