Illegal execution by terrorists: Ukrainian official says beheading video is propaganda

“Propaganda in Russia is centralized. There is a periodic posting of such videos of atrocities by the Russian military, we recently saw the execution of a Ukrainian soldier for the slogan ‘Glory to Ukraine,’ in general, once a month, once every few weeks, such content appears," he added.

“This is a deliberate state policy of the Russian Federation to cover the atrocities of its army against the Ukrainians, against Ukrainian military,” said Yusov.

He said the goal of the policy is “undoubtedly an attempt to demoralize and sow panic among the Ukrainian defense and security forces, which they are failing at”.

“Also, the purpose of such public atrocities, torture and executions is, in particular, to intimidate their soldiers.”

Two videos purporting to show beheaded Ukrainian soldiers have emerged on social media in the past week.
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Yeah, so some videos came out of Ukrainian soldiers getting beheaded ISIS style and they're not happy about it.

"We will find these inhumans. If necessary, we will get them wherever they are: from under the ground or from the other side. But they will definitely be punished for their actions," SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk added.

The video seen by CNN, which was posted on Twitter and is heavily blurred, looks to have been filmed during the summer because of the amount of plant life on the ground.

It purports to show a Russian fighter using a knife to cut off the head of a Ukrainian soldier. A voice at the beginning of the video suggests the victim might have still been alive when the brutal attack began.

Good luck finding the guys that did this one thing. Removal of the head causes mass outrage, very disrespectful. We know a little bit about that from the Middle East.

Dariia Zarivna, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said in a statement Wednesday that the videos are "aimed at intimidation."

“It completely dehumanizes and demonstrates the essence of a terrorist country,” she said of the videos.

“But it is important to understand the purpose. This is an PSYOP [psychological operation] aimed at intimidation. The target audience is not only Ukraine, but also Western societies,” she said.

“It doesn't work on us, though. The Russians are afraid of this, but not us,” she added.

The videos appear to be of separate events -- one of them may have been filmed very recently, while the other, from the amount of foliage seen on the ground, looks like it was filmed during the summer.

I don't know who she means when she says "us", but it does bring memories back from the US fighting in Iraq and Syria. We were given quite a few videos of beheadings to the point that they kind of lost their shock factor. This must be really hard for the Ukrainians to digest though.

Wagner private military company leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has denied that his fighters were involved in a grisly video that purportedly shows Ukrainian soldiers who have been beheaded.

“I have watched this video. It’s bad when people’s heads are cut off, but I haven’t found anything to support that this is happening near Bakhmut and that Wagner fighters are participating in the execution," he said in a statement published by his company Wednesday.

Prigozhin was responding to a question about a video that was posted to a pro-Russian social media channel on April 8, which appears to show the beheaded corpses of two Ukrainian soldiers lying on the ground next to a destroyed military vehicle.

Prigozhin denies involvement. Why would a bunch of former convicts for murder, now battle hardened to some extent (the ones still alive), do something like this.

Russians dont do beheading.

Not even in during the Syrian conflict.



But apparently this by the Ukrainian side during the start of the war is completely fine.
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originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Not even in the Syrian conflict.

Ok, I'll take your word for it.

Chechens do. They're Muslims and they do that. They made some videos beheading captured Russian boys during their war.

Russians were filming cutting gonads off and stuff like that so maybe they upped it a notch.

a reply to: Thrumbo

Chechens do. They're Muslims and they do that.

You mean Chechen Radical and Radical Sunnis/Shia.

Russians were filming cutting gonads off and stuff

So this was as real as that Iraq baby incubator right? considering you believe one the MSM on this.

a reply to: Thrumbo

They made some videos beheading captured Russian boys during their war.

Those wars which those fighters joined up with the so called "Moderate Rebels" in Syria.

a reply to: vNex92

Lol @ that video. Cute, but nowhere near actual execution.

The propaganda level is real though. I mean, I'd hate them too if they were killing me.

a reply to: Thrumbo

Ukrainians had learned propaganda from US of propaganda thus this shows among the white room screens of zelensky..

originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Of course, they don't. Just extrajudicial murders, rapes, torture, targetting civilians, abductions, and other crimes, all of which are being recorded and logged for the inevitable war crimes trials that will follow Russia horrendously destructive and bloody attempted invasion of Ukraine.

Russia, brutal by default for the last one hundred years.

Here you go vNex, video for you.

This is what you're fighting for on the internet

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originally posted by: paraphi

originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Of course, they don't. Just extrajudicial murders, rapes, torture, targetting civilians, abductions, and other crimes, all of which are being recorded and logged for the inevitable war crimes trials that will follow Russia horrendously destructive and bloody attempted invasion of Ukraine.

Russia, brutal by default for the last one hundred years.

your talking of russia, red russia white russia its the same russia call them priests/commissars and back to priests again its the same revolving door culture going back to the kievian rus and the varangians fit in well here as brutal shock troops and mercenaries. so your 100 is near 1,000..

originally posted by: Thrumbo

originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Not even in the Syrian conflict.

Ok, I'll take your word for it.

Chechens do. They're Muslims and they do that. They made some videos beheading captured Russian boys during their war.

Russians were filming cutting gonads off and stuff like that so maybe they upped it a notch.

How very uKKKrainian to say something like that

Both sides are committing war crimes.
Ukrainians are also chopping heads off, mutilating bodies.

There wont be any good guy winners in this war

originally posted by: MisguidedAngel

originally posted by: Thrumbo

originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Not even in the Syrian conflict.

Ok, I'll take your word for it.

Chechens do. They're Muslims and they do that. They made some videos beheading captured Russian boys during their war.

Russians were filming cutting gonads off and stuff like that so maybe they upped it a notch.

How very uKKKrainian to say something like that

Right?

originally posted by: paraphi

originally posted by: vNex92
Russians dont do beheading.

Of course, they don't. Just extrajudicial murders, rapes, torture, targetting civilians, abductions, and other crimes, all of which are being recorded and logged for the inevitable war crimes trials that will follow Russia horrendously destructive and bloody attempted invasion of Ukraine.

Russia, brutal by default for the last one hundred years.

Which is a shame because they will be brushing atrocities like this under the rug. History will show whatever atrocities Russia was committing in Ukraine are miniscule in comparison to what Ukraine is doing and has been doing for some time now.

Does it not strike you as odd that after a year the Russian military is still finding civilians in areas they captured?

Why isn't Ukraine evacuating civilians from these areas?

You are in denial if you can't see Ukraine is provoking Russia from behind civilians and civilian structures to maximize civilian casualties in an effort make Russia look bad. To bad the ICC is choosing to tarnish it's reputation by picking a side here. The side that provoked this conflict and carries out violations of human rights on the daily no less.