Putin's commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers rather than retrieving them from the battlefield for medical treatment, captured Russian soldiers reveal
- Lieutenant-colonel is accused of shooting dead multiple injured Russian troops
- Army intelligence troops captured by Ukraine say they saw the killings
- Ukraine has accused Russia of failing to take back its war dead
Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, according to Putin's own troops.
A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured.
The commander asked one soldier if he could walk, and when the man replied he could not, the officer killed him instantly.
Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, according to Putin's own troops
The chilling account comes from young army intelligence troops captured by the Ukrainians.
They are shown speaking in a video clip made by Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin who has chronicled Russian captives for Open Media Ukraine.
One soldier told how commanders had 'finished off their wounded'.
Asked by Zolkin what he meant, the captured Russian said: 'Just like that…a wounded soldier is lying on the ground, and a battalion's commander shoots him dead from a gun.'
He explained: 'It was a young man, he was wounded.
A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured
They are shown speaking in a video clip made by Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin (pictured) who has chronicled Russian captives for Open Media Ukraine
'He was on the ground. He was asked if he could walk, so he was shot dead with a gun.'
A second soldier said on the video: 'The most important thing - this wasn't a single case. The Lieutenant-Colonel was walking around….'
A third soldier then says: 'He shot four or five like this.'
The second soldier says: 'They were all young men.'
The third added: 'They could have been rescued, given help, taken out of there. He simply shot them dead.'
A grave of Russian soldiers is discovered in Vilkkhivka, near Kharkiv, with many troops desperate to escape the horrors of war
The video came as Ukraine has accused Russia of failing to take back its dead.
Some corpses are loaded (by Ukraine) in white body bags on refrigerated train wagons.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Ostorozhno Media that the Kremlin has 'no information' on either the bodies of the dead soldiers nor the wounded in Ukraine.
He was told: 'People from all over the country write in social networks that they cannot even get the bodies [of the dead soldiers in Ukraine]. The captives are in trouble too…
'What will we do with our dead and will we exchange captives?'
He replied: 'We do not have this information. It is with the Ministry of Defence.'
Russia's death train: Bodies of Putin's fallen troops are loaded into refrigerated carriages in Ukraine with morgue workers finding gold 'looted from civilians' on corpses
- The Ukrainian army gave journalists access to the train carriage near Kyiv
- Inside were dozens of white body bags filled with corpses of Russian soldiers
- Morgue workers showed reporters handfuls of gold jewellery, allegedly looted
- One Ukrainian colonel said Moscow had refused to claim its own dead
A refrigerated train filled with the bodies of Vladimir Putin's fallen troops has been filmed in Ukraine, with gold allegedly looted from civilians found in their pockets.
The Ukrainian army gave journalists access to the carriage near Kyiv, with one colonel telling reporters that Moscow has refused to claim its own dead.
Video inside the train showed a pile of corpses in white body bags stacked at one end of the carriage. Morgue workers showed reporters that they had found gold in the pockets of the soldiers, likely looted from Ukrainian civilians.
One of the morgue workers held two military badges up to the camera, saying that it showed one of the slain soldiers had been an 'elite paratrooper'.
Kyiv says that more than 25,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the Russian president ordered his troops into Ukraine on February 24. The Kremlin has only acknowledged around 1,300 deaths.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ukrainian army colonel Volodymir Liamzin said the bodies in the train 'will be kept as long as need be,' saying Kyiv intends to treat the Russian dead better than they treated Ukrainian civilians.
A refrigerated train filled with the bodies of Vladimir Putin's fallen troops has been filmed in Ukraine. Pictured: A morgue worker zips up a body bag inside the train carriage
Morgue workers showed reporters that they had found gold in the pockets of the soldiers, likely looted from Ukrainian civilians
'The [Ukrainian] government will decide [what to do with the bodies] because Russia refuses to take them,' he said.
From 24th February to 10th May, the total combat losses of Russian troops stood at around 26,000 personnel, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Pictured: Dozens of body bags containing the corpses of slain Russian soldiers were shown inside the refrigerated train near Kyiv
Pictured: The outside of the train is seen in footage. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ukrainian army colonel Volodymir Liamzin said the bodies in the train 'will be kept as long as need be,' saying Kyiv intends to treat the Russian dead better than they treated Ukrainian civilians
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