The video – which was first verified by the New York Times – shows a group of soldiers with Ukrainian patches and blue arms on a street after a battle. The bodies of at least four men in Russian uniform are on the sidewalk. Three of them have head injuries and blood has pooled around the body of a quarter, who has a jacket pulled over his head and appears to be trembling. “He is still alive,” one man said in Russian. “Breathe.” A soldier points a rifle and fires two shots at the body, stops and then fires another. The body stops moving. A man narrated on camera then turns to film a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with the “V” mark similar to that seen on Russian military equipment used by many units in Ukraine. “A little trophy,” says the man. Someone off-camera says, “Slava Ukrayini!” – Glory to Ukraine, a patriotic greeting, and a bearded man enters the frame and answers, “Glory to the heroes”, the standard answer. The exact time and date of the video, which appeared on the pro-Russian Telegram channel, is unclear. The location of the video matches that of a video posted on Twitter by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This video, released on April 2, shows a Russian armored column being blown up. “Craft work of Ukrainian defenders in the Kiev region,” the caption reads. Read more:
