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Video of the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier must be verified, says the Kremlin

He kremlin affirmed this Wednesday that the video broadcast on social networks in which Russian soldiers are allegedly seen beheading a Ukrainian soldier must be “verified”.

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“To begin with, you have to check the veracity of the images”said the spokesman of the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskovin his daily press conference.

peskov He admitted that these are “terrible” images, but insisted on studying their authenticity.

“That can give reason to investigate whether it actually happened, and if so, who did it and where”, he added.

He Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) today announced the opening of an investigation to identify the perpetrators of the decapitation with a knife, allegedly at the hands of a Russian military, of a living Ukrainian soldier seen in a video that was recorded last summer.

“Yesterday a video appeared on a network of the Russian occupiers that demonstrates their bestial nature, in which a Ukrainian prisoner is brutally tortured and his head is cut off”says the Ukrainian secret service in an official note published on its channel Telegram.

The video of the beheading was circulating on Russian social networks and was discovered by the US television network CNN along with another similar, more recent recording in which the bodies of two beheaded Ukrainian soldiers can be seen.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyassured that the execution of the soldier is not “a coincidence or a separate episode”.

“They have already done it in the past, It is what they did in Bucha and thousands of other times. Everyone has to react (to that). All the leaders. And not expect it to be forgotten over time”he asserted, quoted by the agency UNIAN.

Source: Elcomercio

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