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UN tells Ukraine to investigate video showing 'execution' of Russian POWs

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Kiev says it will examine the clip, in which its servicemen appear to massacre prisoners.

The UN's human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has called on Kiev to probe a video that apparently shows the country's troops executing Russian prisoners of war. Moscow has said that killing captives is a "widespread practice" by Ukraine's armed forces.

The UN body told the Associated Press on Saturday that it "is aware of the video and is looking into it," adding: "we reiterate our call that all such allegations should be properly and promptly investigated by respective authorities."

The video itself surfaced on social media earlier this week. In it, a group of captured Russian servicemen are shown surrendering to Ukrainian troops and lying down on the ground, before a second clip shows their bodies lying motionless in pools of blood. Another clip with no sound purportedly shows a Russian soldier emerging from a building and opening fire on the Ukrainians, but it is unclear whether that clip is linked to the alleged execution.

The Russian Ministry of Defense described the video as evidence of "the deliberate and methodical murder" of the soldiers, with the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council calling the incident a "demonstrative and audacious crime." The council demanded an international investigation, and said that it had notified the UN, Council of Europe, Amnesty International, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

"Of course, Ukrainian authorities will investigate this video," Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishina told reporters at a security conference in Canada on Saturday. However, she rushed to claim that it is "very unlikely" that the clips show a deliberate execution.

Russia's Defense Ministry, however, said that not only does the footage depict the

"barbarous killing of Russian prisoners of war, it shows a widespread practice of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that is actively supported by the Kiev regime and outright ignored by its Western backers."

Back in March, another shocking video emerged showing Ukrainian troops shooting captured Russian soldiers in the legs at point-blank range, while other wounded Russians lie on the ground nearby. Countless other videos of Russian troops being mistreated by their Ukrainian captors have also surfaced online in the months since Moscow's military operation in Ukraine began in late February.

Comment: Desperate times, despicable measures:

The New York Times says it has verified the authenticity of videos that surfaced online last week, showing the execution of captive Russian soldiers by Ukrainian troops. The men "appear to have been shot dead at close range," according to the newspaper.

The events shown in the clips occurred in the village of Makeyevka in the People's Republic of Lugansk, earlier this month, the newspaper reported on Sunday.

"The videos... whose authenticity has been verified by The New York Times, offer a rare look into one gruesome moment among many in the war, but do not show how or why the Russian soldiers were killed." The NYT wrote what actually happened to the soldiers remains "a mystery."

However, the outlet noted out that judging by the footage:

"At least 11 Russians... appear to have been shot dead at close range after one of their fellow fighters suddenly opened fire on Ukrainian soldiers standing nearby." The NYT also cited Dr. Rohini Haar, medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights, who said that "killing or wounding a combatant, who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defense, has surrendered at discretion is a violation of the laws of international armed conflict.

"It looks like most of them were shot in the head. There are pools of blood. That indicates that they were just left there dead. There appears to have been no effort to pick them up or help them."

These atrocities will not go down lightly, nor forgotten or forgiven:

Moscow will work to hold accountable the Ukrainian perpetrators of a summary execution of Russian POWs, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman insisted on Monday. Dmitry Peskov said Moscow will try to track down the culprits, with the goal of punishing them. "Russia will do everything possible under international mechanisms to draw attention to this crime and to hold responsible, under the law, those involved in it." Dmitry Labunets, the human rights ombudsman for the Ukrainian parliament, claimed the killings were justified because "the Russian service members were not prisoners of war, but active combatants", who, he believes, only pretended to surrender to the Ukrainians.

The UN urged Kiev to get to the bottom of what had happened, after Moscow drew public attention to it last week. Senior Russian officials have condemned Ukraine and its Western supporters for downplaying such atrocities.

Former President Dmitry Medvedev wrote that there can be [no] redemption for the perpetrators, adding that the culprits deserve only the "ultimate punishment," even if it will take years to materialize. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asserted that European nations "should realize that they are supporting a Nazi state," just like they did in the 1930s, and called for a criminal tribunal for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

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Videos showing execution of Russian POWs in Ukraine are authentic - NYT

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