The death is in captivity. Why a video of the murder of the Ukrainian military appeared
A video on which the Russians brutally kill the Ukrainian prisoner of war has recently appeared on the network. The footage is filmed as a military -shaped militaryman cut off his head with a knife, then showing him to the camera. Everything is accompanied by the cries of the Russians, after which one of them says: "The head must be sent to the commander of the tortured. " In addition, the occupier shows a resident of the executed Ukrainian captive on the camera.
The face of the person who made the execution is closed by a mask. The green leaves around. The execution may have taken place last summer. The scene is not known. Circumstances are still unlike the other video that CNN wrote later. The publication stated that there was another proof of the cruel death of the Ukrainian military. According to reporters, it was located on the pro -Russian social network on April 8, 2023.
In the staff, the Russians filled the bodies of two Ukrainian military without heads that lie near the military vehicle. CNN describes what you see: the voice of the camera is heard, the sound is distorted so that it cannot be identified. "They killed them. Someone approached them and cut off their heads," the words quoted. This video did not show this video, but it is noted that the events were likely to have recently unfolded near Bakhmut. The murder was made by representatives of Wagner PEC.
It is known that the units of this private military campaign are operating in Bakhmut for several months. During the fighting, they capture Ukrainian servicemen. They are not transferred for general exchanges, but are kept separately, then to change on their own in the field. Those who have been captured by the Wagnerists talk about cruel interrogations. "No one controls that you were captured or alive. You were alive. He was not aware of the killings of Ukrainians during his stay in captivity.
It is worth noting that the two videos that are mentioned are not the first ones that appeared on the network from the beginning of a full -scale invasion. At the beginning of March 2023, a video on which a person in the form was killed in the queue of shots after the boot, looking at the camera, says "Glory to Ukraine!" In July 2022, a video of torture Russian military Ukrainian prisoners, who was later killed, was opened.
In all these cases, it is not just about the murder of Ukrainian servicemen, but about the murder of prisoners of war. This is evidenced by the fact that the military is in shape, without weapons, and therefore under the full control of the enemy's forces. It should be noted that prisoners of war has a special protected status - they should maintain health and life. Therefore, we can now safely state that we are dealing with a war crime.
Ambrela's lawyer, international law specialist Andriy Yakovlev, says focus that any conflict is accompanied by military crimes. They can occur with carelessness or due to abuse of their powers. And in this case with a well -known video, it turns out that this murder is only for the sake of murder. "There are a lot of war crimes, they are all different.
Some are not related to the benefits of battlefield - for example, when objects of energy sphere are deliberately destroy related to receiving military superiority. Among these are the shelling of the railway station in Kramatorsk. This crime may be associated with the overlap of the railway. That is, there are war crimes in which cruelty is a consequence. However, in this case, the cruelty is the purpose. the crime was committed with sadistic slopes, people on video acted as maniacs.
And the goal is not just to intimidate, but to enjoy the process, no matter how scary it sounds. Apparently, it is a certain rite He did not do it before . . . "they are important," - says Yakovlev. He clarifies that the video is recorded not just the murder of the captive, but an extraordinary execution. The causes of such cruelty may be different. But, probably, the reasons for execution are some, and the reasons for demonstrating the video after more than half a year after shooting are the other.
"For example, to break the scandal associated with the leakage of Pentagon information, which is about losses, in particular, on the Russian side," suggests Andrei Yakovlev. "Many people react to a horrible video, it is distracted, forcing plans to change. I do not I doubt that this video was not published by accident. " "Ukrainians have long known that they are fighting against sadists and maniacs that the Russians have come to kill and torture, to arrange genocide of the Ukrainian people.
But the West is still hesitant whether to give more powerful long -range weapons, or to give planes, or to persuade Ukrainians to surrender or to persuade" a truce. "And such videos demonstrate that this war cannot be completed without a final victory over evil, which always returns from the eastern borders, if he is given a chance to" breathe "to come to kill with greater force and cruelty," - said in the community InformNapalm investigators.
Those who have released the video may also hope that the material provokes reverse trends - Russians may also expect to be abused. It can start a chain of violence. But experts emphasize that this cannot be admitted, as it may be, because then at some level it will be sooner or later possible to hear the refusal to help, because in the eyes of the world we will look the same.
After a video of the execution of the Presidential Office, Andrey Yermak wrote: "There will be an answer and responsibility for everything. " And the head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk said that the service will find "the inhuman who did it and get them even from the ground. " According to journalist Denis Kazansky, Russian military Yegor Guzenko, who leads a telegram-channel "Thirteenth", may be involved in the death of a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
Earlier, he noticed a publication depicting a Russian army with a cut off head in his hands. In the unification of investigators of InformNapalm was noticed under a video presented by the founder of the Russian extremist male movement "Men's State" Vladislav Pozdnyakov, a comment on Russian neo -Nazis Alexei Milchakov with DShg "Rusich". He wrote that such videos will continue to appear. Undoubtedly, all war crimes must be investigated and the guilty are held accountable.
This is the international obligation of each state. And this case is a cruel military crime, which must undoubtedly involve a strict punishment, because obvious circumstances are obvious. "It is not just a murder of a prisoner of war, it is a devaluation of human life. If it was a dedication, some rite, then these people who have committed the crime can repeat it. And if repeated, no one follows them. But they are responsible for some leadership , which admits such actions.
It can be reached for higher ranks, and they will be responsible, " - continues Andrei Yakovlev. He emphasizes that criminal law is intended to perform two tasks - to punish the perpetrators and prevent crimes in the future. And in order to achieve the second goal, it is important that we see the world's response to such crimes. Ukraine must collect data on such crimes and prove that Russia is in comprehensive in this case.
And they must be condemned not only by the US or the EU, but also, for example, Brazil and India, which are often held in grades. "Maniacs cannot be admitted to war. One party cannot justify such actions, only because they are their military," Yakovlev adds. "Such cases give reason to say that they turn the Russian Federation into ISIL. He does not respond, and Presidential President Putin Dmitry Peskov said that he doubt the truth, then it is anxious.
" But now the lawyer is in doubt that direct performers can be found. Instead, you need to focus on finding responsible. It is known that the Security Service of Ukraine has opened the proceedings. But the investigation risks entering a dead end, because it is difficult to determine who did it.
"For example, in the case mentioned in the case of a railway station firing in Kramatorsk in law enforcement agencies said: once we will catch a military man, and he will tell where the" point "stood, and then we will investigate," said Andrei Yakovlev. If there are no specific performers, you can find responsible from the command of the command - to identify the commander from the Russian Federation who was responsible for this area of the front.
And then let him refute that he is not involved. And we will insist that the events are repeated as he could not know What was several. In addition, if we know that Russia is not investigating this case, and it should do it, it will mean that it actually covers it. The crime is terrible in Kramatorsk. And what do we see now? It seems to me that no one was declared suspicion. And it is unlikely Legal tools do it. " Therefore, the only logical way out is to hold the highest guidance.
And for this you need to find witnesses. You can use international search tools, such as Interpol, to search them. But he did not participate in investigating war crimes, considering such cases political. In Europe there is a European warrant (EAW). There are cases where Europol searched for persons who are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. "I watched the plot as the wives of Russian high -ranking officials, in particular, the military, they feel quiet in Kurechevel.
But we can assume that they were witnessing how their husbands gave criminal orders. Therefore, such wives could also be questioned in criminal proceedings for these high -ranking officials. And they would not go with such a happy face, " - adds Andrei Yakovlev. Nowadays, the Attorney General's office says they are trying to identify a person probably a Ukrainian prisoner of war, whose video was widespread online.