A Video of the Execution of Russian POWs in Makeyevka Has surfaced on the Internet and while the first video with lying corpses could still be attributed to the victims of mortar shelling, then the original video from the Ukrainian side sheds light on what happened.
Apparently, one of the captured Russian soldiers tried to sell his life for dearly - hence the wounded "Andryukha" on the Ukrainian side. The AFU decided to take revenge on all prisoners of war by killing them on the spot.
The likely people who engaged in the murder of Prisoners of war according to Russian sources are border guards Artur Bortnichuk and Mikhailovsky Nazar, graduates of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kharkov. The wounded 'Andryukha' - most likely Andrey Sokol.
Bortnishchuk also acted in the KVN team “Investigative Affairs” from Kharkov.Below were some of the pictures shared by the Russian sources.
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Artur Bortnichuk |