“This horrific assault is yet one more obvious instance of full disregard for human life and dignity in Ukraine dedicated by Russian forces,” Marie Struthers, Amnesty Worldwide’s director for Jap Europe and Central Asia, mentioned Friday.

In a roughly 1½-minute-long video, a person wearing navy fatigues, sporting a “Z” patch and an orange-and-black ribbon related to Russian forces, castrates the sure prisoner utilizing a inexperienced utility knife.

A separate video shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels exhibits a single shot being fired into the prisoner’s head.

The Washington Submit was unable to substantiate the date or location of the place the movies have been filmed.

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Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the boys within the footage as Russian “propagandists” delighting in torture. “However the fog of conflict is not going to assist to keep away from punishment for the executioners,” he tweeted. “We’ll establish and get to every of you.”

Social media customers, investigative journalists and members of battle intelligence teams have been poring over different footage of Russian forces out there on-line, in an try to establish the boys proven within the movies. The Submit was unable to establish the captive within the footage.

Aric Toler, director of analysis and coaching on the investigative collective Bellingcat, mentioned the presence of the “Z” image, which has turn out to be an emblem of assist for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on a automobile within the background in a single video “goes in opposition to some claims … that the video could also be outdated and simply now rising after a yr or two.”

The E.U.’s prime diplomat described the footage for example of the “inhumane, barbaric acts” that quantity to conflict crimes.

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“Proof in type of appalling video footage has been broadly shared on pro-Kremlin social networks at present, wherein Russian troopers commit a heinous atrocity in opposition to a Ukrainian prisoner of conflict,” Josep Borrell mentioned Friday in reference to the ugly movies. “The European Union condemns within the strongest potential phrases the atrocities dedicated by the Russian armed forces and their proxies.”

There was no official remark from Moscow on the allegations.

Amnesty’s assertion mentioned the London-based rights group has documented crimes beneath worldwide regulation throughout Russia’s conflict on Ukraine, together with abstract killings of captives of Russian-backed separatists and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.

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After the withdrawal of Russian forces from Kyiv’s suburbs earlier within the battle, photos of our bodies mendacity within the streets and proof of torture in Bucha, close to the capital, prompted world outrage — and extra Western sanctions in opposition to Russia. Moscow has dismissed the accusations.

As Russian bombs pummel Ukrainian cities, Kyiv says it’s amassing proof across the nation to examine and prosecute lots of of alleged conflict crimes by Russian forces through the conflict, now in its sixth month.

In April, a Ukrainian official mentioned an investigation could be launched after a graphic video shared on-line confirmed the obvious killing by Ukrainian forces of a Russian fighter mendacity on the bottom.

Francis reported from London.