Russian soldiers caught on camera killing Ukrainian civilians - BBC News

these are russian soldiers on their way to loot and to kill but that every move is caught on multiple cameras and so is leonid the security guard as he approaches them the men talk even smoke and then the soldiers leave but suddenly two turn back they shoot laneid and a second man multiple times in their backs laneid somehow survives his boss dead the guard staggers back to his hut and starts phoning for help i met one of the friends leonid called that day the soldiers claimed they don't kill civilians then they shot him i asked how he was i said can you at least bandage yourself up and he said vasya i barely crawled here everything hurts so much i feel really bad so i told him to hang in there and started calling the territorial defense the russians drove a stolen van dubbed with their v symbol and the words russian tank special forces and this is the man we saw shooting now helping himself to a drink he has no idea he's being filmed no one does until it's too late and all this time lanied is hiding in here bleeding heavily weeks later we found his clothes and mattress bundled up outside he died before help could reach him i met the men who tried to save leonid sasha and kostya who sold air conditioning before the war as they rushed to the scene that day they tried to reassure leonid that he'd make it but they were scared themselves we went there knowing the risk and the fire we knew the russians would come back and they had tanks and we only had our guns so our chances were not equal but we had to go and get him they showed me how the nearby road looked in those days with russian tanks rolling past their positions [Applause] police have told us the russians shot at anything that moved here they found the bodies of 37 civilians on just this stretch of road it's not just the burnt out buildings and businesses along this road that you see but things like this two russian tanks just lodged in the forest and you can see the v's painted on the front and it's a a really stark reminder of just how fierce the fighting was all along these roads into kiev and how terrified laney must have been as he was lying there bleeding and calling for help lady's daughter shared this image of her dad as she'd like him remembered i won't take that what kind of wisdom julia is abroad now she tells me she wants her father's killers to face justice my dad was not a military man at all he was a pensioner they killed a 65 year old what for i'm not so much furious as full of grief and fear these damn russians are so out of control that i'm afraid of what they might do next lei need never returned to his home or his pets another life stolen by russian troops now notorious for their brutality sarah rainsford bbc news kiev

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Published: Thu May 12 2022