A barbaric Russian soldier has claimed that his battalion has ‘blown the heads off’ Ukrainian servicemen – with sickening video allegedly displaying a severed head impaled on a pole.
The appalling footage has been reported as a struggle crime to the United Nations by the Kyiv authorities, and was seemingly made at a Russian border level in Belgorod area.
Ukrainian troops made a failed bid to interrupt by way of the Kolotilovka checkpoint into Russia this week in an obvious effort to develop their invasion – which has already seen Kyiv’s forces seize enormous swathes of territory within the neighbouring Kursk area.
Moscow stated as we speak that Kyiv has used Western rockets, doubtless US-made HIMARS, within the area for the primary time to destroy a bridge over the Seym river, with dramatic video displaying the devastating assault.
The destruction of the important thing bridge inside Russia is simply the most recent blow to Vladimir Putin – as Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces intention to thwart the dictator’s struggle provide traces and inflict ‘most injury on all Russian positions’.
A Russian soldier within the one hundred and fifty fifth Brigade of the Pacific Fleet says the ‘useless males’ of his unit ‘salute you, Khokhols’ – a derogatory phrase utilized by Russians for Ukrainians
The sickening video – shared by a Russian telegram account – allegedly reveals a severed head impaled on a pole
Because the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk area enters its twelfth day, Kyiv has claimed to have taken management of 82 settlements over an space of 440 sq. miles (1,150 sq. km).
Russian propaganda is in overdrive as Putin’s males desperately attempt to save face following the shock incursion, claiming the profitable defence of Kolotilovka towards Ukrainian marines as a victory and making an attempt to make use of it as a warning.
In a chilling video of the aftermath, a Russian soldier within the one hundred and fifty fifth Brigade of the Pacific Fleet says the ‘useless males’ of his unit ‘salute you, Khokhols’ – a derogatory phrase utilized by Russians for Ukrainians.
‘You will have made an unforgivable mistake, stepping together with your filthy pig hooves on our holy land,’ he threatened. ‘As we speak a few of you’ve had your heads blown off by our stress.’
He went on together with his sinister menace: ‘Will probably be the identical each time we meet. The useless haven’t any pity. The useless males know no worry. The useless are coming for you, Khokhol.’
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, stated he had contacted the UN and the Crimson Cross over the abominable footage filmed on the Kolotilovka checkpoint.
‘The enemy makes use of such movies to intimidate and demoralise Ukrainians,’ he stated. ‘Nonetheless, this solely strengthens our need to deliver everybody who commits such inhuman atrocities to inevitable accountability.’
It’s unclear how the Ukrainian serviceman was beheaded.
The day this occurred – August 12 – one other video confirmed a daring bid by Ukrainian troops to crash by way of the border at excessive velocity in a Kozak-2 armoured automobile.
The automobile got here to a halt on concrete ‘dragon’s enamel’ barricades after which exploded after a drone strike.
A few of the Ukrainian paratroopers escaped from the Kozak-2 alive and studies stated they have been then ‘liquidated’ by the Russians.
The day this occurred – August 12 – one other video confirmed a daring bid by Ukrainian troops to crash by way of the border at excessive velocity in a Kozak-2 armoured automobile
The armoured automobile was attacked with a drone and explosive shells
The barbarity involving the severed head is allegedly the work of the Russia’s one hundred and fifty fifth separate marine brigade from the Russian Pacific Fleet. It’s identified they have been transferred to this a part of Russia.
Based on Ukrainian intelligence, the one hundred and fifty fifth Guards Brigade was concerned in atrocities such because the killings of civilians earlier within the struggle in Bucha, Irpen and Hostomel within the Kyiv area.
Unfazed by the most recent menace and urging his armed forces to maintain urgent on, Zelensky stated in his newest video handle: ‘We see that the occupier is struggling losses, and that is useful, very useful for our defence.
‘It’s about destroying the logistics of the Russian military and draining their reserves.
‘We should inflict most injury on all Russian positions, and we’re doing that.
‘I thank every of our warriors for his or her precision, I thank them for energy and for resilience.’
Kyiv will probably be heartened by its newest profitable assault on Russian infrastructure – the downing of a key bridge in over the Seim River, stopping Putin from transferring personnel and provide reinforcements within the border space.
Dramatic aerial footage reveals an enormous blast on the key crossing within the Kursk area
The bridge in Glushkovsky district was blown aside in a second strike, after the primary try holed the construction however left it intact
Footage present the fully destroyed bridge after the alleged HIMARS strike
The bridge in Glushkovsky district was blown aside in a second strike, after the primary try holed the construction however left it intact. Stories point out this isn’t the one bridge to be destroyed.
‘For the primary time, the Kursk area was hit by Western-made rocket launchers, in all probability American HIMARS,’ Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian international ministry, stated late on Friday on the Telegram messaging app.
‘On account of the assault on the bridge over the Seym River within the Glushkovo district, it was fully destroyed, and volunteers who have been helping the evacuated civilian inhabitants have been killed.’
A frantic submit from a pro-war channel stated: ‘A part of the Glushkovsky district is now lower off. That is Tyotkino, Popovo-Lezhachi, Volfino and about 27 extra settlements.
‘The civilian inhabitants can now solely be evacuated by water. The enemy can also be hitting the bridge within the village of Zvannoye within the Glushkovsky district.’
The blown up bridge is a few 13 miles inside Russia from the border.
It’s one more humiliation for Putin who has proven himself unable to regulate his personal territory, whereas making an attempt to swallow neighbour Ukraine.
