As Moscow escalates its military assault on the east of Ukraine, a video has now emerged on social media which claimed that a Russian prisoner was executed by Ukrainian armed forces. This comes days after the horrific Bucha killings. The video, which was first verified by the New York Times, showed a group of soldiers wearing Ukrainian patches and blue armbands on the road.

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Four injured men in Russian uniform were lying on the pavement in a pool of blood. “Three of them have head wounds and blood is pooled around the body of a fourth, who has a jacket pulled over his head and seems to be rasping. ‘He’s still alive,’ says one man, in Russian. ‘He’s gasping,’ CNN reported.

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A soldier then pointed a rifle and fired two shots at the body. He paused and fired again until the body started moving.

The person who was narrating to the camera also turned to film a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with a “V” marking similar to that seen on Russian military hardware operated by many units in Ukraine. A man could be heard saying, “A little trophy,” while another said “Slava Ukrayini!” [glory to Ukraine].

This came after images and videos of people lying dead on the streets of Bucha, some with their hands tied behind them, emerged after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv. The grisly images of battered bodies left out in the open or hastily buried drew global condemnation and calls for investigation and tougher actions against Russia.

Reuters journalists who visited Bucha on Saturday saw bodies lying on the streets of the town, 37 km (23 miles) northwest of the capital Kyiv. A mass grave at one church was still open, with hands and feet poking through the red clay heaped on top.

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of carrying out a “massacre” in the town, one of many recaptured by Ukrainian troops as Russia regrouped for battles in eastern Ukraine. Russia denied the allegations, calling them a “provocation” by Ukraine.

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