Ukrainian authorities investigate a video apparently showing Russian PoWs being shot in the legs.
Ukrainian authorities are investigating video footage which has been claimed to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russian prisoners of war in the legs.
The BBC has been analysing the video but has not been able to independently verify it yet. As we continue to examine the footage, here is what we have found out so far.The footage - which is too graphic to show in full - purports to show a number of captured soldiers lying on the ground. Some have bags over their heads, and many appear to be bleeding from leg wounds. It is not clear how or when they were injured.
Before the three soldiers are shot, we can recognise elements of a house behind one of them. A tree , a chimney and the top half of a window are very similar to those in a previous image of the dairy surroundings which we found on the farm's Google web page.In another section of the video, with soldiers lying in the foreground, there are more visual clues.
At one point, one of the captives is accused of shelling Kharkiv, another is asked about his nationality and replies that he is Azeri . In the video of the alleged shootings at the dairy, one of the soldiers walks past carrying a distinctive, camouflaged assault rifle. There's been some debate on social media as to whether the footage is genuine or staged, with some people claiming there isn't enough blood, evidence of exit wounds or shouting or screaming from the victims for it to be real.
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