Dailymail
Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, according to Putin‘s own troops.
A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured.
The commander asked one soldier if he could walk, and when the man replied he could not, the officer killed him instantly.
The chilling account comes from young army intelligence troops captured by the Ukrainians.
They are shown speaking in a video clip made by Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin who has chronicled Russian captives for Open Media Ukraine.
One soldier told how commanders had ‘finished off their wounded’.
Asked by Zolkin what he meant, the captured Russian said: ‘Just like that…a wounded soldier is lying on the ground, and a battalion’s commander shoots him dead from a gun.’
He explained: ‘It was a young man, he was wounded.
‘He was on the ground. He was asked if he could walk, so he was shot dead with a gun.’
A second soldier said on the video: ‘The most important thing – this wasn’t a single case. The Lieutenant-Colonel was walking around….’
A third soldier then says: ‘He shot four or five like this.’
The second soldier says: ‘They were all young men.’
The third added: ‘They could have been rescued, given help, taken out of there. He simply shot them dead.’
