Horrifying footage appears to show Russian captors castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors.

While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video, the footage, which was initially posted on a pro-Russian Telegram page before spreading rapidly on social media, showed what appears to be a Russian soldier or mercenary wearing a distinctive black fringed hat, mutilating a man who appears to be a captured Ukrainian soldier.

The victim in the video wears Ukrainian-style camouflage fatigues and is shown gagged, his hands tied behind his back. He lies helpless on the floor, as the man in a Russian uniform, which features a “Z” patch, uses a box cutter to cut off his clothes and then appears to castrate him while shouting degrading insults in Russian. At least two other men who appear to be Russian soldiers can be seen in the video.

While it is unclear when the video was filmed, what appears to be the same man wearing the black fringed hat also appeared in a June broadcast by the Russian state-backed media outlet RT. In that clip, the apparent soldier can be seen carrying a Dragunov sniper rifle as he walks around the Azot chemical plant in the city of Severodonetsk after the Ukrainian withdrawal from the city. In a post that was published on the RIA Novosti Telegram channel, the Russian news agency identified the man as part of the Chechen “Akhmat” battalion of the Russian army.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/horrifying-footage-appears-to-show-russian-captors-castrating-a-ukrainian-prisoner-of-war-221414554.html

[onecaliberal]

1. Fucking evil pricks. I hope they get ten thousand times worse.

[msongs]

2. yahoo - we dont know if this is real or fake so we will click bait it for $$ nt

[littleredhen]

3. Sickening!

War crimes tribunals will go on for years because of this sort of thing

[Dawson Leery]

4. The Russian soldier has always been a mongrel.

It was pure common sense to let the Nazi roaches fight with the Soviet ones.

[sir pball]

5. Jesus Fucking Christ. Don't expect Ukranians to take prisoners anymore.

The best Russian mothers should hope for is the ashes of their sons, if somebody is humane and burns the bodies and their accompanying parts.

To quote William Tecumseh Sherman - "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

[PortTack]

6. It was proven they raped toddlers to death and lobbed off ears. They are capable of anything

Total barbaric pricks

[texasfiddler]

7. Ukraine will get to the point where they fight to the death and take no prisoners.

This is sickening.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. I think the perp(s) have been doxxed

I read on another site that he’s been ID’d by way of his social media platform.

I think that the Ukrainians are going to take a special interest in him and that things will not only go very hard for him, but also for anyone caught near him when vengeance comes calling.