Documenting killing of Russian POWs by Ukraine troops. Geneva Convention: A #WarCrime

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli

A few days ago I saw some video fragments posted in Telegram, depicting Russian POWs in captivity. A separate brief video showed dead Russian soldiers, some scattered, while others lye in a pile. I decided to investigate the material, to which I did a breaking down of the sequences in the videos, frame-wise. I then published on Twitter the first two findings. However, the last video I posted on Twitter –with a third discovery– was deemed inappropriate. The tweet and video was deleted, and my account was suspended. In sum, instead of modifying the video to please Twitter censorship, I decided to publish all that material in The Geopolitical Indicter. Adding some more.

An updated investigation comprising materials regarding the killings of 30 Russian POW is found here:

The Ukraine forces’ executions of 30 Russian POW. Most of them (n= 24) murdered with point-blank headshots” (Published 28 Nov 2022)

 


This was the sequence. I published the first finding on Twitter here:

The above material followed-up with an extended version I published in The Indicter Channel here

Ensuing, I established the execution of another Russian POW, found in the group of the seven bodies. I posted this second finding here:

Further, I identified yet another POW execution in that same material. I posted the finding on Twitter, but that tweet/video was after a while deleted by Twitter. 

 

 

Or it was because I finished that tweet with this sentence:

With a heartfelt question to Ms @vonderleyen & her #NATO-puppets at @EUparliament:

Who is the actual “state sponsor of terrorism”?

 

 

To which I replied to Twitter:

 

(The video deleted by Twitter is found in Item 3, down below).

 

The videos:

Item 1

 

 

Item 2

2nd verified execution in group of seven Russian POW-iPad-1080p

 

Item 3

3 POW executions documented amidst 7 killed Russian soldiers

 

Item 4

Other video I found in Telegram

 

Item 5

The Makeyevka massacre of Russian POWs

The New York Times:

Videos Suggest Captive Russian Soldiers Were Killed at Close Range

Videos circulating online and reported on by Russian state media have raised questions about whether Ukrainian soldiers committed a war crime.

BBC:

Video appears to show killing of captive Russian soldier

https://www.bbc.com/news/61025388

Item 6

Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-troops-seen-killing-russian-pows-video-1695896

 

Item 7

CGTN: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-04-09/Video-appears-to-show-Ukrainian-troops-killing-Russian-captive-195Azl4tsti/index.html

 

Item 8

Video Appears to Show Ukrainians Killing POWs in Same Fashion as Kiev Victims