From Twitter
If American soldiers did this, I think we'd be hearing about it for years (remember the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse?)
But since Russia did it, Americans will probably forget within a month (as with Tymofiy Shadura). Bucha will be remembered better—but was a much larger atrocity...
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RT @visegrad24
The Russians have just published a video of them cutting the head off a captured Ukrainian soldier as he tries to struggle for his life.
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https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1645912822289768449
From Twitter
Ukrainian soldiers must all be asking themselves:
If three executions of POWs (probably by three different groups of Russians) were posted on the internet, how many others weren't? How many torture sessions?
"Best not to be taken alive," one might think, grenade in hand.
From Twitter
Original stories:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/ukrainian-pow-castrated-by-russians-in-sickening-video/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-authorities-identify-defiant-ukrainian-pow-executed-by-russians/
https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/video-appears-to-show-russian-troop-beheading-ukrainian-pow/
From Twitter
I certainly wouldn't want Ukrainians to respond in kind, but: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-un-execution-prisoners/32333852.html