It is Monday in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. A Russian commander is outraged and shouts to his soldiers that Ukrainians are not to be captured – they are to be killed. His group has just captured a Ukrainian soldier. – Take his American weapon. Take everything, documents, money, gold, diamonds. Pull out his teeth, cut off his head and bring it to me, he says in a conversation that was intercepted and recorded. Severed head found by drone The commander tells his soldiers to put the severed head on a pole to scare Ukrainian soldiers. Shortly after the call was recorded, a Ukrainian drone found a damaged vehicle in the Donetsk region. On the hood was a severed head. “Planned strategy” Ukrainian security services have received information that the order has gone out more broadly, that Russian soldiers are not to take prisoners of war but instead execute their enemies. “It is further proof that the war crimes committed by the aggressor are not isolated events but a planned strategy by the Russian regime,” Ukrainian Attorney General Andriy Kostin later wrote on X.
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