27 Mar, 2022 18:37

Russia investigates alleged footage of Ukraine troops torturing POWs

Unverified graphic footage purports to show Ukrainian servicemen shooting Russians at point-blank range

Russia has launched a probe after graphic video emerged online, purporting to show the torture of prisoners of war at the hands of Ukrainian servicemen.

“The video circulating online shows captured soldiers being shot in the legs with medical assistance,” the country’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on Sunday.

The head of the body, Alexander Bastrykin, has ordered “investigators to establish all the circumstances of the incident, collect and record evidence and identify all the persons involved in it to subsequently bring them to justice.” While it was not immediately clear where or when the disturbing videos were shot, some reports indicate the incident unfolded at a military compound located in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkov, which is used by “nationalist” units, the committee added.

Multiple disturbing clips apparently filmed at the same unknown facility, emerged online over the weekend. The videos are so extremely graphic that RT is unable to share them.

The footage shows multiple people, apparently Russian prisoners of war, lying on the ground. All of the servicemen appear to be heavily beaten and have leg wounds.

The injured soldiers are interrogated by armed men, many of whom are wearing blue armbands commonly used by Ukrainian units. Some of the wounded personnel apparently died during the interrogation. Footage also shows three other prisoners ordered out of a van and shotin their legs at a point-blank range.

The extreme cruelty displayed in the videos has garnered condemnation, even from pro-Ukrainian figures. The founder of the US-government funded Bellingcat “investigative journalism” outlet Eliot Higgins, for instance, has described it as “very serious incident” and called for a “further investigation” of the disturbing imagery.

Moscow attacked neighboring Ukraine last month, following a seven-year standoff over Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552804-moscow-investigates-alleged-footage-of/

27 Mar, 2022 18:41

Ukraine wants Russia expelled from nuclear watchdog

Ukraine leadership oz suicidal imo

Kiev has accused Moscow of "terrorism" after Russian troops took over several Ukrainian atomic power plants

Ukraine is working with its Western supporters to expel Russia from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or to at least remove its representatives from key posts in the watchdog, a Kiev official told journalists on Sunday.

According to US state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Elena Zerkal – an adviser to Ukraine's energy minister – revealed that such efforts were underway. The Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia's alleged "policy of nuclear terrorism" counts as an "indisputable basis" for the country's expulsion from the international atomic watchdog.

She reportedly cited Russian troops taking over several Ukrainian nuclear plants as an example of this behavior.

Russian troopstook control of the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the first day of Moscow's military offensive, last moment. Shortly afterwards, the Russian military issued a statement, saying that th plant's staff were continuing to work and there was no threat of a nuclear accident.

Ukrainian authorities have, however, claimed that Russian troops are forcing staff to work long shifts without rotation – a situation the IAEA's Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has called potentially dangerous. In a statement released last Tuesday, Grossi warned that the Chernobyl plant employees were operating "under enormous stress without the necessary rest."

On top of that, on March 9 the facility's power supply was cut, with staff having to switch on backup diesel generators to ensure that the cooling system functioned normally. Five days later, one of the power lines supplying the plant with electricity was restored. According to the Russian military, the outage was caused by Ukrainian shelling of a nearby electrical substation.

Kiev has also accused Russian troops of setting fire to the woods surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, releasing radioactive particles into the air.

On March 4, Russian forces took over the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant in the south of Ukraine. According to media reports, one of the buildings in the compound caught fire as a result of fighting, with Kiev and Moscow blaming each other for the incident.

Apart from the plants now under Russian control, there are three more operational nuclear power plants across Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552807-ukraine-moscow-russia-expelled/

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