Ukraine says will look into alleged prisoner shooting video - Danbury News Times

Stefanishyna, speaking precocious Saturday, said “it is precise unlikely” that the short, edited snippets amusement what Moscow claims.

Russian authorities announced the opening Friday of a transgression probe based connected the snippets posted connected Russian Telegram channels and relayed connected different societal media. They contiguous a muddled and incomplete picture.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed the footage shows an “execution" and said Russia wants an planetary investigation.

Stefanishyna, however, said Ukrainian forces are “absolutely not funny successful the execution of anybody" and are nether nonstop orders to instrumentality “as galore prisoners of warfare arsenic we can” truthful they tin beryllium swapped successful captive exchanges with Russia.

“Every imaginable executed Russian worker is immoderate Ukrainian that is not capable to beryllium exchanged, truthful the tone and logic is not there,” she said.

The U.N.’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission successful Ukraine called for further investigation.

“HRMMU is alert of the video and is looking into it,” it said successful a connection to The Associated Press. "We reiterate our telephone that each specified allegations should beryllium decently and promptly investigated by respective authorities.”

Asked if Ukraine volition let an planetary investigation, Stefanishyna said: “We volition see. No occupation with that.”

In the astir nine-month invasion, Moscow's forces person committed wide abuses and alleged warfare crimes, according to the United Nations, rights groups and reporting by The AP.

Matilda Bogner, who heads the U.N. monitoring ngo successful Ukraine, said earlier this week that Ukrainian troops are suspected of immoderate abuses, too.

“We person received credible allegations of summary executions of persons hors de combat, and respective cases of torture and ill-treatment, reportedly committed by members of the Ukrainian equipped forces,” Bogner said.

The video snippets that Russia claimed pointed to an execution could not beryllium independently verified.

The longest snippet, 36 seconds agelong and with cuts, shows a radical of astir 10 men successful afloat subject gear, immoderate lying connected the crushed and others emerging 1 by 1 from an outbuilding with their hands raised, seemingly unarmed. Under orders shouted by idiosyncratic off-camera, they articulation the others already connected the ground.

Some of the men deterioration reddish bands connected their little legs. Red oregon achromatic identifying marks are sometimes worn by Russian and Russia-aligned troops to place them arsenic members of the Kremlin’s penetration force.

The video besides features different men watching them, shown to beryllium equipped and wearing flashes of yellowish connected their arms, legs and helmets.

Ukrainian forces often deterioration bits of yellow, bluish oregon greenish to place themselves connected the battlefields.

One antheral with a yellowish armband appears to beryllium holding the camera. Another, besides with a yellowish armband, is shown lying connected the crushed with a dense instrumentality weapon and belts of ammunition. At slightest 2 different equipped men wearing glimpses of yellowish besides look to beryllium watching the evident surrender.

In the past fewer seconds of the video, a antheral emerges from down the outbuilding. He appears to beryllium armed. Amid what sounds similar sustained gunfire, the video past becomes excessively blurred to spot what happened next. The video cuts disconnected a fewer seconds later.

A separate, 8-second and soundless snippet appears to amusement those last moments slowed down. As helium emerges, the seemingly equipped antheral appears to rise a firearm and unfastened fire, with the muzzle of the weapon emitting puffs of smoke.

Another abstracted snippet of video, 25 seconds agelong and seemingly changeable with a drone, appears to amusement the aforesaid men lying motionless, amid what appears to beryllium pools of blood.

Where and erstwhile the videos were filmed wasn’t clear. Mostly leafless trees successful the backgrounds look to suggest a autumn oregon wintertime timeframe.

Andrey Marochko, a antheral who identified himself arsenic a Russian serviceman based successful Ukraine’s Luhansk region, claimed connected Telegram that the footage was filmed successful Makiivka, a colony successful the occupied portion of eastbound Ukraine. Russian media gave the aforesaid location. Ukrainian forces claimed to person regained power of the front-line colony earlier this month.

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Gillies reported from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Elise Morton successful London and Hanna Arhirova successful Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed.