The New York Times posted a video showing Ukrainian soldiers killing Russian prisoners on April 4.
The Times article read: “’He’s still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he’s still alive. He’s gasping’ a man says as a Russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded, is seen still breathing. A soldier then shoots the man twice. After the man keeps moving, the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.”
The video showed another soldier, hands tied behind his back and obviously shot in the head. Three of the bodies had white armbands that are worn by Russian soldiers. It was filmed on a road just north of the village of Dmytrivka, around seven miles southwest of Bucha, where the Ukrainians claim Russia carried out war crimes. The killing apparently happened on March 30 during the Russian withdrawal from the region. A freelance journalist posted videos and pictures of the destroyed column on Twitter on April 2 and wrote that soldiers told him that the Russians had been ambushed 48 hours earlier.
Just like the Nazis, a Ukrainian soldier is recorded saying, “these are not even humans.” Other Ukrainian soldiers are recorded saying “Glory to Ukraine” multiple times. Their unit is unclear, but in the video of the killing, one of the men refers to some of them as “Belgravia lads,” likely referring to a housing development called Belgravia located a few hundred yards from the incident.
The Times wrote that the Ukrainian news agency that posted a video of the aftermath of the ambush on March 30 described it as the work of the “Georgian Legion,” a paramilitary unit of Georgian volunteers that formed to fight on behalf of Ukraine in 2014.
Unsurprisingly, the New York Times did not demand further investigation of the obvious war crimes.
