Russian prosecutor’s office orders to examine video of alleged Ukrainian soldier’s beheading

Russia’s prosecutor’s office said on Thursday it had ordered an examination of viral video showing a Russian-speaking individual, dressed in uniform, beheading a person who appears to be a Ukrainian prisoner of war.

“In order to determine the authenticity of this content and draw the conclusions [judiciales] necessary, [el video] He was sent to the investigative bodies to be examined.”, indicated the prosecutor’s office on its Telegram channel.

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This decision may or may not lead to at the opening of a criminal investigation.

On Wednesday, after the Ukrainian government accused Russian forces of the beheading, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskovcalled the images “horrible” but considered that they still you had to check its “authenticity”.

In its statement, the Russian prosecutor’s office stated that the images appeared to have been recorded “in summer”, implying that the scene could have occurred in 2022.

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In the video, a man is seen wearing camouflage clothing. and the covered face decapitating another, lying on the ground. In the end, the executioner shows his head to the camera.

For his part, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, He rejected this Thursday the accusations of an NGO and a defector from his group, who affirmed the day before that the perpetrators of the beheading were members of his organization.

Source: Elcomercio

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