Ukraine war: Were Russian soldiers shot after surrendering?

Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of executing a radical of Russian prisoners, an enactment it has described arsenic a warfare crime.

It follows the emergence of a video from the beforehand enactment successful eastbound Ukraine showing the evident surrender of a fig of soldiers successful an incidental that ends successful their deaths.

A Ukrainian authoritative has claimed that the surrender was "staged" by Russian troops successful an effort to onslaught their captors.

The BBC has been attempting to portion unneurotic what happened from the disposable video footage,

Warning: This portion contains graphic images which immoderate whitethorn find upsetting.

The incidental happened connected oregon earlier Saturday 12 November successful Makiyivka, a colony connected the beforehand enactment successful Luhansk region.

Drone footage appeared aboriginal that time and connected Sunday connected pro-Ukrainian sites showing the bodies of a fig of uniformed soldiers lying connected the crushed successful a farmyard.

Part of the footage from this country has been utilized successful a video posted online by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence astir subject operations successful the Makiyivka area.

On 17 November, much video footage emerged, this clip filmed from crushed level by 1 of those contiguous astatine the country arsenic events unfolded.

On the video, shouting tin beryllium heard successful Ukrainian for anyone hiding wrong a shed to travel out. They look 1 by 1 and prevarication down connected the ground.

Ukrainian voices connected the video tin beryllium heard asking if everyone is out.

This video past shows a antheral emerging from down the building. He is equipped and opens fire, seemingly successful the absorption of the camera. As helium does so, the camera representation falls distant successful blurred disorder

We've confirmed that the aerial footage (from the drone) and the video filmed connected the crushed are of the aforesaid scene.

We've been capable to lucifer the 2 videos by comparing cardinal elements. An entranceway doorway - with what looks similar a rod lying connected it - is disposable successful some (highlighted successful purple) arsenic good arsenic what looks similar a reddish artifact car successful the farmyard (highlighted successful orange).

We've besides been capable to place the determination of the drone footage (upper right) by comparing it to a Google Earth photograph of buildings successful the colony of Makiyivka (lower image).

The signifier of 2 buildings (identified with purple lines) look to lucifer successful some images. The spread betwixt the buildings (green box) and the enactment of the operation connected the near (in orange) tin besides beryllium seen successful both.

Russia's defence ministry has called the incidental "deliberate and methodical murder" by shots to the caput of much than 10 immobilised Russian servicemen. It goes connected to accidental that it is "not the archetypal and not the lone warfare crime" by Ukrainian forces.

Killing oregon wounding a combatant who has laid down their arms and surrendered is simply a warfare crime.

Russia has been accused of aggregate warfare crimes, including the sidesplitting of civilians successful Bucha - which we person besides investigated.

Surrender and exchanges of prisoners of warfare person go a important origin successful this warfare that has lasted astir 9 months.

In a study this week, a UN ngo successful Ukraine reported abuses of prisoners by some sides. The immense bulk of released Ukrainian prisoners they spoke to said they were tortured and ill-treated and 9 radical died.

Unlike Russia, Ukraine allowed entree to detained prisoners. Some told the ngo of summary executions and respective cases of torture and ill-treatment.

Last play a gruesome video emerged that appeared to amusement the decease of a mercenary astatine the hands of his ain Russian Wagner group.

Unverified footage showed Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, being deed connected the caput with a sledgehammer. Wagner brag Yevgeny Prigozhin aboriginal accused him of betraying Russia and his comrades.

Nuzhin, a convicted killer, had appeared successful a Ukrainian video aft helium was captured, announcing helium had changed sides. Just however helium ended up successful Russian hands is not wide but Ukrainian officials said helium had not surrendered voluntarily truthful was not considered idiosyncratic who could beryllium exchanged.

An speech of prisoners of warfare took spot connected 11 November but Nuzhin was not 1 of them. He appears to person been attacked successful Kyiv earlier being captured by the men who killed him.

This portion was archetypal published connected 17 November and has been updated.