“they shot them point-blank range then loaded their lifeless bodies back on the boat,”
That’s more like the old Rooskies we all came to know. The only puzzler is why they would deny it? When they were busily slaughtering 1.3 million Afghani’s in the 1980’s, no one really seemed to mind, especially the western media. Why get shy now?
Actually, putting them on a boat with no engine, navigation system or supplies in the middle of the ocean sounds way more scary than simply executing them.