WARNING: This article contains graphic content. The videos released on social media appear to show the beheaded corpses of two Ukrainian soldiers lying on the ground next to a destroyed military vehicle. 9News
The videos appear to be of separate events; one of them may have been filmed very recently, while the other, from the amount of foliage seen on the ground, looks like it was filmed during the summer.social media channel on April 8, was purportedly filmed by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group and appears to show the beheaded corpses of two Ukrainian soldiers lying on the ground next to a destroyed military vehicle.
It purports to show a Russian fighter using a knife to cut off the head of a Ukrainian soldier. A voice at the beginning of the video suggests the victim might have still been alive when the attack began.Elon Musk says he's cut about 80 per cent of Twitter's staff "Russian terrorists must be kicked out of Ukraine and the UN and be held accountable for their crimes."Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the video was "terrible" but "first of all, we need to verify the authenticity" of the footage.
The ISW has reported similar incidents in Popasna, in the Luhansk region, where Wagner troops were also operating earlier in the war. Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a fighter of the Wagner group who died during a special operation in Ukraine, at the Beloostrovskoye cemetery outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 24, 2022.
"But it is important to understand the purpose. This is an PSYOP [psychological operation] aimed at intimidation. The target audience is not only Ukraine, but also Western societies," she reasoned.Ukraine's human rights chief said he will request that the UN Human Rights Committee investigate.
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