Russian and Ukrainian officers on Wednesday condemned a video circulated on social media networks displaying a soldier with a Ukrainian arm patch being beheaded.
“There is something that no one in the world can ignore: how easily these beasts kill. This video. … The execution of a Ukrainian captive. … The world must see it. This is a video of Russia as it is. What kind of creatures they are,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in a press release.
Zelensky claimed that the video of the beheading is Russia’s try and make such occasions a “new norm” and that these are “not an accident.”
“Everyone must react. Every leader. Don’t expect it to be forgotten. That time will pass. We are not going to forget anything,” Zelensky mentioned, additional expressing that there will probably be “legal responsibility” for all the pieces and that Russia’s defeat is “necessary.”
Underlining that nobody will perceive how essential the state of affairs is that if world leaders don’t react or act on the video, Zelensky additional mentioned Ukraine in the meantime should deal with the frontline “as much as possible.”
In a separate assertion on Twitter, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba labeled the video as “horrific” and criticized Russia primarily based on its rotating chairmanship within the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the month of April.
“A horrific video of Russian troops decapitating a Ukrainian prisoner of war is circulating online. It’s absurd that Russia, which is worse than ISIS (Daesh terror group), is presiding over the UNSC. Russian terrorists must be kicked out of Ukraine and the UN and be held accountable for their crimes,” Kuleba mentioned.
Andriy Yermak, the pinnacle of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, reiterated Kuleba’s feedback in a press release on Telegram saying that Russia shouldn’t be within the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, adviser to the pinnacle of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Mykhailo Podolyak mentioned in a press release on Telegram that any makes an attempt to discover a compromise with Russia have to be “strictly stopped” and that Moscow have to be remoted from the remainder of the world.
“None of Russia’s actions demoralize Ukrainians, because we have no other way but to achieve victory. To find and punish everyone. This is only an incentive to work more intensively, contribute more and become a lawyer for Ukraine in the parliament or behind the podium in every corner of the planet,” Podolyak mentioned.
Elsewhere, the Kremlin mentioned the authenticity of the video have to be checked earlier than arriving at any conclusions.
“First, you need to check the authenticity of these terrible shots. Of course, these are terrible shots,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned throughout a press briefing in Moscow.
According to Peskov, after checking the authenticity, then they’ll start to verify whether or not the contents of the video are true or not, whether or not this happened, and if it did, then “where and by whom.”
“First of all, in the world of fakes in which we live, it is necessary to check the authenticity of this shooting,” Peskov additional reiterated.
Separately, head of the Wagner paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin denied the involvement of its forces within the video and that the video was recorded close to the town of Bakhmut.
“I have watched this video. It’s bad when people’s heads are cut off, but I haven’t found anywhere that this is happening near Bakhmut and that Wagner PMC fighters are participating in the execution,” Prigozhin mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
