Posted on 03/06/2023 11:44:06 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian soldiers executed an unarmed Ukrainian military man - a prisoner of war - for the words “Glory to Ukraine.” The video of this crime has appeared on various social media.
Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper, wrote on Monday, that it is unclear where and when the video was made.
The video shows a military officer being taken into Russian captivity. As he utters the words “Glory to Ukraine,” a Russian military officer shoots him with a machine gun.
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I am not saying it’s going to happen. I am saying it “should” happen. And to the Putin fan bois in this country as well.==
Again your hostility is pointed to wrong direction. This was was PROVOKED by West.
And Russians are not executing POWs because they already have about 30 thousands of them. Compare with number of Russian POWs in ukes camps. Less the 1,000. How so do you think?
Ukie surrender willfully in this war so ukie leadership shoots such propaganda clips just to scare their own soldiers and prevent surrenders. It is all staged and meant for stupids.
Hitler wanted to exterminate Ukrainians too.
Russia still must be denazified.==
C’mon you must know better. Whatever Russia was but never she pursued the ethnical hatred like true nazies must do.
Russia from 17 century and on were EMPIRE but not small ethic country like those in Europe. Empires unite a different people. So the ethnic hatred goes against the mainstream of any Empire.
https://russiannobility.org/polish-nobility-in-the-russian-empire/
Lot of Poles were a part of Russian ruling class. Even in Siberian town Tomsk has a polish Kostel.
Hitler wanted to exterminate Ukrainians too.==
Not exactly. If you remember Alfred Rosenberg? He wanted keep Ukrainians as pro-germanic tribe.
“...Regarding Ukrainians, he favoured setting up a buffer state to ease the pressure on the German eastern frontier, while agreeing with the notion that Russia could be exploited for the benefit of Germany.[42]...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg
Ultimately the Nazis would have made the Ukrainians a source of slave labor.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/79712
This is how Russians take prisoners. Pay attention of a soldier gun. This AK12. No such guns with ukie troops.
oh, my bad. then it’s ok to murder someone in cold blood cause it happens all the time. let’s ignore evil, it will go away on its own.
Yesterday the Kyiv Independent reported from near the frontline about the bad situation for the Ukrainian troops fighting there:
Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut: ‘Our troops are not being protected’
Russia’s relentless assault on Bakhmut is sacrificing waves and waves of unprepared men being sent to their deaths. But multiple defenders of this embattled city in Donetsk Oblast feel that they are in a similar boat, according to interviews with more than a dozen soldiers currently fighting in or around Bakhmut.
During their brief visits to the nearby town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
“We don’t get any support,” says a soldier named Serhiy, who has been fighting on the front lines in Bakhmut, sitting down with his friend, also named Serhiy, for a conversation in a small cafe in the Kostiantynivka market. Both men are in their 40s but one of them is a bit older than the other.
The soldiers lack about everything that would support their defense:
They say that Russian artillery, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers are often allowed to strike Ukrainian positions for hours or days without being shut down by Ukrainian heavy weapons. Some complained of poor coordination and situational awareness, allowing this to happen or making it even worse.
Mortarmen spoke of extreme ammunition scarcity and having to use weapons dating back to World War II. Drones that are supposed to provide critical reconnaissance information are also scarce and are being lost at very high rates in some parts of the battlefield.
All this leads to terrifying casualties of both dead and wounded. "The battalion came in in the middle of December… between all the different platoons, there were 500 of us," says Borys, a combat medic from Odesa Oblast fighting around Bakhmut. "A month ago, there were literally 150 of us."
“When you go out to the position, it’s not even a 50/50 chance that you’ll come out of there (alive),” says the older Serhiy. “It’s more like 30/70.”
The soldiers describe the Russian operation as small reconnaissance followed by artillery fire. This is repeated again and again until it has reached the desired result. The very reasonable application of this tactic is why I disregard claims of 'waves or Russian cannon fodder storming forward' or of 'high Russian losses'. They are obviously nonsense:
The older Serhiy says that the enemy likes to send a team of three or four expendable foot soldiers to attack and make the Ukrainians expose themselves by shooting at them. At that point, the more elite forces zero in on the defenders’ position.
Once they begin exchanging fire, the Ukrainians are struck with heavier weapons like Russian mortars and rockets from Grad multiple launch rocket systems or BMP infantry fighting vehicles and BTR armored personnel carriers with machine guns.
“They get the positions where we are, establish the coordinates, then they hit us from seven to nine kilometers out with mortars,” as well as from closer by with grenade launchers, says the older Serhiy. “They wait for the house to fall so we have to jump out. The building catches fire and then they try to finish us off.”
“Their birds come out and they chase us with fire,” adds the younger Serhiy, referring to Russian UAVs, like quadcopters and Orlan-10 fixed wing drones that spot distant heavy weapons. “They hit accurately.”
As Russians destroy more and more buildings, Ukrainians keep losing more places where they can reliably take cover. Borys the medic says people have been lost when their entrenched positions collapsed from heavy Russian fire, suffocating them.
“I’ll put it like this, we should get our people out because if we don’t take off, then in the next few weeks, it’s going to be bad,” says Oleksandr. A mortarman named Illia agrees that Bakhmut is “practically encircled.”
For lack of ammunition there is no Ukrainian counter artillery fire. Infantry fighting vehicles are held back from the front. The little trained Territorial Brigades are send in at night to be killed the next morning:
Multiple soldiers say Bakhmut troops are barely given enough time to learn to shoot a rifle – sometimes their training is just 2 weeks, before they’re dropped into the hottest parts of the most intense current battle of the war. They would have preferred for troops to get a minimum of two or three months of training before being deployed to such a hot spot.
“Two weeks’ live training and they’re sent here. You can’t do that,” says the older Serhiy. “Or it’s a person who once served in the army, how long ago was that? Obviously they forgot everything.”
“We were promised that we wouldn’t be sent to the zero line right away, that at first we’d be sent to the second or third line,” he continues. “And then we came here in the middle of the night and they immediately sent us to Bakhmut.”
... According to both soldiers named Serhiy, most brigades are insufficiently trained and lack the experience for an environment as brutal as Bakhmut. People are taken at night to a place they’d never seen before and the battle starts in the morning.
“This is why positions are abandoned, people are there for the first time,” says the younger Serhiy. “I went to a position three times and was given six people who hadn’t fought at all before. We had a few dead and wounded that had to be evacuated… Our people are not being protected.”
Oleksandr confirms that while some battalions fighting in Bakhmut are well-trained and ready, most of them aren’t and many were thrown in at night without much preparation. “Yes, that’s true, my battalion was not prepared,” he says. After five months without a single break from the fighting, only half of Oleksandr’s battalion is left, he says.
“They shouldn’t have rushed to throw everyone in there,” says the younger Serhiy. “Better to abandon those positions, who cares? It’s better to properly train people.”
So did the people who lived BCE.
Have you ever been to a horror film or a war movie? Do you think that they kill a bunch of people to make them? So yes, I can deny that this guy was murdered; it was a poorly done piece of garbage. Kids in junior high could do better.
As I said in my post... I don’t doubt that these type of atrocities are happening on both sides... I just don’t buy that this video is real. But go ahead and believe it if war porn gives you your jollies.
“ …I can deny that this guy was murdered; it was a poorly done piece of garbage. Kids in junior high could do better.”
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Oh, he was definitely murdered. The question of who/what he was (POW, deserter, coward, killer of other fellow unit soldiers, etc?) remains with me as well as the question of who murdered him and why. He and his shooter(s) seemed to be familiar with one another and there was a lot if animosity there. What was the source of that animosity?
I wish I understood Ukrainian/Russian. Did he say “Glory to Ukraine” in a mocking or sarcastic way or as a patriot. I can’t tell.
You probably don’t believe it is real because you have never seen a man machine gunned before. Perhaps had you served in a military and in combat you would know the difference.
But being an armchair Pootie Pal, you have no choice but to discount atrocities by your beloved, merciful, bullet and artillery shell proof hero soldiers.
Men of that age are what your glorious leader is throwing into the meat grinder so his half qualified people can run out of Bakmut. You go boy. At least Biden is paying for a nice new set of heels for “Glorious Stiletto Shodden Penis Piano Player Great Leader.” Why don’t you just go join bicycle shorts over in the corner?
it is the moral code that keeps us from becoming the monsters we must defend against. the fight between good and evil is never over unless satan is successful in tempting you to his side.
murder, plain and simple.
Funny, all that is happening to NATO.
Perhaps in your mind, but NATO has counties banging on the door to join.
Russia can’t even get good help from China. They are a pariah.
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