EKO HOT BLOG reports that a horrifying video has surfaced that appears to show Russian captors cast*ting a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
The footage which depicts a group of men wearing Russian camouflage pulling down a soldier wearing Ukrainian fatigues, removing his g3nitals with a box-cutting knife, and then holding them up to the camera.
The footage’s specific location and when it was shot are unknown, although several of the Russian soldiers seen in it were captured in June on the front lines in Donbas.
Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun tweeted the footage, saying: ‘Russia has to pay for it.
‘Give Ukraine the weapons we need to stop this nightmare once and for all. The world can’t pretend like this isn’t happening.’
It is also unclear what happened to the Ukrainian soldier in the video, but it is unlikely he survived his injuries without immediate medical attention.
Aric Toler, from investigative website Bellingcat which successfully identified the Salisbury poisoners, has told The Times that the video is likely genuine.
There is no evidence that the video has been manipulated, he said, pointing to Russian state media that showed some of the same Russian soldiers in the city of Severodonetsk back in June – shortly after it was captured from Ukraine.
Internet users are now attempting to identify the soldier seen doing the cast*ting, and believe he may have come from a Chechen unit that ultimately falls under the command of Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov.
Others have suggested the camouflage he is wearing is from a Rosgvardia unit – Russian national guard that report directly to Putin.
The video is just the latest in a long line of evidence of war crimes being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Perhaps the best-documented were in areas of northern Ukraine that Russia occupied early in the war before being forced to retreat.
Bucha and Irpin, two cities on the outskirts on Kyiv, bore the brunt of the atrocities – with plentiful evidence left behind of kidnap, torture, and summary executions of civilians and soldiers.
Anecdotal evidence suggests deliberate campaigns of r*pe and s*xual assault were also carried out by Russian troops.
Ukrainian officials have warned that similar atrocities are likely to have been carried out in other areas Russia occupies – such as Mariupol and Donbas – but Moscow has likely destroyed evidence of those crimes.
More than a million Ukrainians are also thought to have been forcibly deported from areas that Russia has seized and taken via filtration camps.
Soldiers, government officials, members of the emergency services, and their families have reported being sent to concentration camps on occupied territory where torture, s*xual abuse, and mock executions are carried out.
Those who do not end up in the camps are sent deep into Russia – some as far as the island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Japan – where they are forced into work.
Ukraine says it is investigating more than 21,000 crimes by Russian forces, while international teams of prosecutors have gone to the country to assist.
The first to be jailed was tank commander Vadim Shishimarin, 21, who admitted shooting 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov d*ad in the opening days of the war.
Shishimarin said he was pressured to kill Shelipov by his comrades, fearing the elderly man – who was pushing his bike by the roadside – was about to report their location to Ukrainian troops.
The International Criminal Court has described Ukraine as ‘a crime scene’ and has dispatched its largest-ever team to investigate.
M*ssacres in cities such as Bucha and Irpin are under investigation, as are strikes on hospitals and other buildings where civilians were sheltering from bombs.
Russia is now five months into what was supposed to be a days-long war to depose the government and install a puppet regime.
Estimates of the civilian d*ath-toll are near-impossible to come by, but Ukraine believes it runs into at least the tens of thousands.
United Nations human rights chiefs have documented at least 5,000 d*aths, but say there are likely many more that cannot be verified due to fighting.
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