INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The New York Times said Sunday it has verified footage showing captive Russian troops being killed by Ukrainian forces as experts remain
divided on whether the grisly episode constitutes a war crime or an act of self-defense.At least four drone and cellphone videos of the
shows three of his comrades standing by in a farmyard as 10 apparently unarmed Russian soldiers lie facedown on the ground
Two of six soldiers lying on the ground can be seen moving earlier in the video before the footage is cut off; when it resumes, four others
Rohini Haar, medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights, told NYT.An 11th soldier is then shown emerging from the same shed and opening
bloody aftermath of the incident, with most of the Russian soldiers positioned as they were when they surrendered in the cellphone video.Iva
Vukusic, a war crimes prosecution expert at Utrecht University, said classifying the encounter as a war crime comes down to whether the
military and civilian authorities, as well as influential state media figures and military bloggers, jumped to accuse their Ukrainian
have opened a criminal probe into the footage, while the recently reshuffled presidential human rights council said it would raise the issue
with international organizations.The Kremlin on Monday vowed that Russia would find and punish the Ukrainian soldiers involved in the
prisoners of war on both sides claimed they were tortured in captivity.
