Ukrainian Soilders' Execution

 This is the last smoke a man, purportedly a Ukrainian POW, will ever consume before being executed by Russian soldiers, supposedly next to a shallow grave.

Kyiv called the soldier's death a "heinous war crime" after the terrifying video surfaced.

A man can be heard saying "Glory to Ukraine" in the disturbing video as he smokes a cigarette in a little hole in the ground. In the background, a group of troops can be heard smirking.

Next, in what some Ukrainian officials have referred to as "evidence of genocide," he is shot to death with automatic guns.

In his evening address, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky stated: "Today, a video appeared of the occupiers brutally killing a soldier who bravely yelled, "Glory to Ukraine!" to their faces.

In the meantime, the International Criminal Court was urged to examine the video by Ukraine's foreign minister.

"Horrific video shows a Ukrainian Prisoner being executed by Russian soldiers for saying "Glory to Ukraine" while unarmed. Another (evidence) that this war is murderous,' Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba posted on social media.

Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, "immediately initiates an ICC inquiry into this horrendous war crime," according to Kuleba.

Criminals must be brought to justice, he continued.

Where, when, and whether the video depicted a Ukrainian prisoner of war being shot, as some Ukrainian officials and social media users claimed, could not be independently verified.

On social media, the word allegedly uttered by the imprisoned Ukrainian soldier began trending, and senior officials in Kiev accused the Russian military and demanded that justice be done.

In the year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv have accused one another on several times of executing captives.

A substantial portion of the Wagner mercenary group, which is leading Russia's attack on Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, is made up of individuals who were sourced from Russian jails.

Russian soldiers have been charged with systematic murder, torture, and kidnapping of Ukrainians during the conflict.

The pattern might possibly incriminate top officials in war crimes, a senior American official claimed in November of last year.

Reporters were given convincing proof by US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack that Russian crimes in Ukraine were not arbitrary or unplanned.

A growing body of evidence suggests that systematic war crimes have been perpetrated in every area where Russian forces have been stationed in conjunction with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to her.

Evidence from freed areas shows "deliberate, indiscriminate and disproportionate" attacks on civilian populations, mistreatment of civilians and POWs while in custody, the forcible deportation of Ukrainian citizens, including children, to Russia, as well as execution-style killings and sexual assault, she told reporters.

"It's really difficult to imagine how these crimes could be done without blame going all the way up the chain of command when we're seeing such systemic activities, including the construction of a large filtration network," she said.