INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had determined a soldier recorded being shot dead in a video that circulated commonly on social networks,
sparking outrage and stimulating authorities to demand a probe.The video footage reveals what seems a caught Ukrainian fighter standing in a
shallow trench, cigarette smoking, and being shot after stating Glory to Ukraine
According to preliminary data, the departed is a serviceman of the 30th separate mechanized brigade-- Tymofiy Mykolayovych Shadura, the
Ukrainian armed force stated on Telegram.The soldier had actually been missing out on since Feb
3 amid fighting near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the declaration said
The last confirmation of his identity can be established after the body is returned, it added.It was difficult to independently verify
where or when the video footage was shot or whether it revealed-- as Ukrainian officials and social networks users suggested-- a Ukrainian
detainee of war.In an address to the nation on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the video showed Russian forces brutally
killing a Ukrainian serviceman
We will discover the murderers, he pledged
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba likewise required the International Criminal Court to probe the video
Moscow and Kyiv have on numerous events implicated each other of eliminating detainees in the year considering that Russia attacked
Ukraine.AFP contributed reporting.
