Ukraine as compared Russia on Wednesday to Islamic State, after a video emerged on line displaying obvious Russian infantrymen filming themselves beheading a Ukrainian captive with a knife.
Reuters couldn’t right now confirm the authenticity or provenance of the video shared on social media, which confirmed a person in uniform beheading a person who wears the yellow arm band utilized by Ukrainian infantrymen.
There turned into no on the spot touch upon the video from Moscow, which has denied withinside the beyond that its troops perform atrocities all through the full-scale invasion Russia released final year.
“There is some thing that no person withinside the international can ignore: how effortlessly those beasts kill,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated in a video message.
“There may be felony obligation for everything. The defeat of terror is necessary.” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba stated on Twitter: “A awful video of Russian troops decapitating a Ukrainian prisoner of strugglefare is circulating on line.
“It`s absurd that Russia, that is worse than ISIS, is presiding over the UNSC,” he stated, relating to the U.N. Security Council wherein Russia took up the rotating presidency this month. “Russian terrorists should be kicked out of Ukraine and the UN and be held liable for their crimes.”
Militants from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have been infamous for liberating motion pictures of beheadings of captives after they managed swathes of these nations from 2014-2017.
Ukraine’s home protection employer stated it had released an research right into a suspected strugglefare crime over the video.
“Yesterday, a video regarded at the Internet displaying how the Russian occupiers are displaying their beastly nature – cruelly torturing a Ukrainian prisoner and reducing off his head,” the SBU employer wrote on Telegram.