Russian commanders are slaughtering their injured soldiers instead of getting them out of the battlefield for medical treatment, captured Russian troops in Ukraine have claimed in a video. In the video interview given to Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin for the news outlet Open Media Ukraine, a group of Russia’s young army intelligence troops captured by Ukrainians alleged that their officers “finished off” their wounded soldiers. One of the captured soldiers recollected how a lieutenant colonel asked a wounded comrade if he could walk, and when the soldier replied he could not, the official shot him dead along with other injured soldiers, the New York Post reported. “Just like that…a wounded soldier is lying on the ground, and a battalion’s commander shoots him dead from a gun,” the soldier told Zolkin. “It was a young man, he was wounded. He was on the ground. He was asked if he could walk, so he was shot dead with a gun.” The high-ranking official then “shot four or five like this, they were all young men,” another Russian soldier in captivity said, adding that the incident was not a single case. “They could have been rescued, given help, taken out of there. He simply shot them dead,” a third soldier recollected the ordeal, Siasat reported.
via ibtimes: Captured Russian Troops Claim Commanders ‘Finished Off’ Their Own Wounded Soldiers
siehe auch; Russian commanders allegedly slaughtering their own wounded soldiers. Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Russias own troops have said, the media reported. A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured, Daily Mail reported. It comes as investigations in the horror town of Bucha have revealed 650 civilians were shot rather than hit by shelling in what police say proves they were executed by Russian troops.