'Appalling' videos alleged to show Russian soldiers castrating a Ukrainian soldier

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I read this earlier before work and it kind of stuck with me in my head, just how foul it is. I see that it hasn't been posted here and while there's really no merit to sharing it that I can see, I wanted to pass it along. Humanity can be so depraved. I'm sure we all remember the beheading videos and such from the western incursions into the Middle East, but this.. is a different kind of low. So apparently this was passed around on pro-Russian social media and that's where it was picked up. I guess they liked this kind of thing being perpetrated.

Like I said, not much to this, just something to think about. Also, it's not "World War III" related, but this is where the other Russian War in Ukraine posts end up so I didn't have many options.

(CNN) Videos alleged to show Russian soldiers castrating and killing a bound and gagged Ukrainian soldier are circulating on social media, drawing an accusation of potential war crimes from the United Nations and prompting a Ukrainian investigation into possible torture.

The three videos appear to show a soldier wearing what look like yellow and blue patches -- the colors of the Ukrainian flag -- on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back, first being gagged, then mutilated, then shot.

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The video that appears to come first shows the victim being gagged surrounded by at least four men, one of whom is wearing what looks like a Russian uniform with the "Z" insignia associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A second video shows the same man writhing on the ground as a man wearing blue surgical gloves and what appears to be a Russian uniform cuts off the victim's underwear with a box cutter. The man uses the same box cutter to castrate him, then holds the mutilated genitals up for the camera. In the video, the perpetrators can be heard saying "hold him, hold him" in Russian.

The third video shows the bound and mutilated man being shot in the head and dragged away.
www.cnn.com...

One can only assume they took the entire package, but why? Is this supposed to put fear in their enemy? If anything, it would only make them more willing to fight to the death to avoid capture. It's kind of like children torturing a wounded animal in the woods for fun, hard to relate.

a reply to: Thrumbo

With this old exposed staged fake, are you trying to interrupt the fact that Ukraine killed its own prisoners of war from Azov in Yelenovka?
Silly!

a reply to: RussianTroll

Actually this despicable act was revealed shortly before Russia faked the missile attack. So it seems to me that Russia is trying to cover up, like I pointed out in your thread the other day.

a reply to: Thrumbo

There are so many cartel and ISIS videos that are as bad or worse. There are multiple compilation videos that combine all the worst for you.


I am not gonna list them or where to find here but you can find multiple content creators on YouTube that review them.

Since the dawn of man people have done the most horrible and terrible things to each other both during war time and outside of it.

Typically done to install terror in your enemies.

a reply to: RussianTroll

So thats how it works? It's kind of like saying the 2020 election was stolen?

You accuse something as being fake, illegitamite, cause doubt? The other side has to either prove somehow that you're wrong or else the accusation stands and is even used to walk with like a crutch.

"Can't prove I'm wrong so what I said could be the truth."

And it is, it really is for people who want it to be true. They'll even pass it around to convince other people that what you said was true, when you accused something as fake or illegitamite, and the burden grows to prove that the accusation is wrong.

Well, it was posted on 7/30/22 but apparently it's an old staged fake that's already known about. CNN looks like a big dummy 24hrs after publishing it as a headline. No one's informed them that it was an old fake video, but RussianTroll just let us know because he's privy to special knowledge. Must be above top secret security clearance level.

a reply to: Thrumbo

Is this supposed to put fear in their enemy?

Yes.
German soldiers and civilians committed suicide rather than be captured by Russian troops in WW2 through fear of rape and worse by Russian troops , the video is a signal to Ukrainian troops that nothing has changed.

a reply to: Thrumbo

If this was a fact, the Russian soldiers would have been found by Russian intelligence and most likely shot. The last thing that Russia would want is to create a long-living enmity within the borders of Ukraine. Whoever posted this video is desperate.

a reply to: anonentity

Whoever posted this video is desperate.

Not as desperate as those trying to detract from it.

Firstly… CNN. cannot believe anything they report. Secondly… CNN. Thirdly. CNN.

Also. War is war.

Bad things happen to both sides in war.

Also.

Noone knows anything regarding ukraine, russia, the war there or what is really happening.

So, stop trying to form opinions on the internet from a conspiracy website using cnn as the mouth piece. Ridiculous.

a reply to: DaRAGE

The Geneva convention to which Russia is a signatory.

Article 3
In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:

(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

(b Taking of hostages;

(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;

(d) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

2. The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.
www.ohchr.org...

originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: Thrumbo

The last thing that Russia would want is to create a long-living enmity

A bit late to start worrying about that now, don't you think?

Yes, this could be a video of a horrific war crime.

Just to play devils advocate…
What if it’s a video of some people castrating a paedophile?
And for good measure, people are dressed in military uniforms to create a useful narrative?
Im not saying it is, im just saying it’s possible. We have no real context.
And as the saying goes, ‘The first casualty of war is truth’.
a reply to: Thrumbo

originally posted by: anonentity
If this was a fact, the Russian soldiers would have been found by Russian intelligence and most likely shot.

With so many atrocities being reported, ranging from gang rapes, torture and random executions, "Russian intelligence" are probably complicit. The Russians know that with such widespread abuse that there will be no repercussions for offenders, even if they were known. With no repercussions, it's down to the Russian army doing as they please, with tacit encouragement from their chain of command. Sadly, Russian doctrine and self-control is stuck in the past.

A good gauge of Russian guilt is to measure the amount of fake stories they publish. The more contrary propaganda, the more guilty. There's quite a lot out there, often echoed on ATS.

The recent explosion, which killed many Ukrainian POWs, and blamed by the Russians on a Ukrainian missile, seems more plausibly an attempt to cover-up war crimes, given what we know about Russian brutality.

a reply to: Lucius Driftwood


The small clip I've seen of it, Russian speaking uniformed soilders strip a tied up solider, who is in Ukrainian uniform.
I haven't seen the rest and don't really want to but in a desciption of the video, they then commit the vile brutality with a craft type knife.

This is also being reported by numerous sites....

Toler said a Russian soldier wearing the same distinctive black hat and wristband as the man in the video had previously appeared in a clip at the Azot chemicals plant in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk aired by the Kremlin-backed RT broadcaster.

a reply to: paraphi

A good gauge of Russian guilt is to measure the amount of fake stories they publish. The more contrary propaganda, the more guilty. There's quite a lot out there, often echoed on ATS.

We only need to look at the rubbish propaganda and calling fake RT is posting to know this is true!

originally posted by: DaRAGE
Firstly… CNN. cannot believe anything they report. Secondly… CNN. Thirdly. CNN.

Also. War is war.

Bad things happen to both sides in war.

Also.

Noone knows anything regarding ukraine, russia, the war there or what is really happening.

So, stop trying to form opinions on the internet from a conspiracy website using cnn as the mouth piece. Ridiculous.

Yeah, that knocks it down a few notches for me. I try to ignore the propaganda that is this war in it's entirety. I only look for things they aren't talking about on my own to form any opinion about anything concerning this war (that isn't much either).

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

A search shows this news article on dozens of sites not just on CNN.

the story even made it into the Moscow times.
Moscow times

a reply to: Thrumbo

Ah CNN. Anything to generate more reactions as much as what CNN had tried to do in Syria.

a reply to: Kurokage

Moscow Times is not Russian owned its a western news source.