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.