Videos shock for allegedly showing beheading of Ukrainian soldiers

Published April 12th, 2023 - 06:35 GMT
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Graphic content / Ukrainian volunteers pack the body of a dead Russian soldier which they exhumed in the village of Dolina, Donetsk region on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP)

ALBAWABA - Two unconfirmed videos, which are said to be taken separately, of Ukrainian soldiers being brutally beheaded circulated on social media in the past few hours.

The two videos allegedly showed Ukrainian soldiers being brutally beheaded after being captured by Russia. According to CNN, one of the videos is likely to be filmed recently.

In early April, one of the videos was shared online by a pro-Russian social media channel, which was said to purportedly have been filmed by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group.

It allegedly showed the beheaded corpses of two Ukrainian soldiers lying on the ground next to a destroyed military vehicle.

The dead soldiers also appeared to have had their hands cut off too.

The Ukrainian influencer Igor Lachenkov, who has over 238,000 followers, shared another video of a soldier, who was reportedly said to be Russian, using a knife to cut the head of a captured Ukrainian soldier. The video was heavily blurred.

Lachenkov wrote: "This is yet another monstrous crime of the Russian army and a violation of all conventions and moral principles of humanity."

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video criminalizing the videos allegedly showing Ukrainian soldiers being beheaded by Russian forces. He said: "There's something no one in the world can ignore, how easily these beasts kill?"

The president maintained: "Everyone must react, every leader. Don't expect it to be forgotten. The time will pass and we are not going to forget. Nerhtier we are going to forgive the murderers."

A huge debate was launched on social media after the two alleged videos where people discussed possible war crimes, Russia had committed since the start of the war in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

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