From a few days ago, I'd been seeing two videos going around. Looked to be taken at the same site, even on the same day & time (same contrast/colour variations). In one, it appears to show Russian prisoners laying on the ground who have been shot in the leg (may show some
getting shot - it's been some time since I viewed it). Those shot appear to be relatively, possibly oddly, calm about it. The captors have blue arm bands, like pro Ukrainian fighters. The second video shows some men taken out of a van, then getting shot in the leg. The footage of both is of very poor quality. Given the devices out & about these days, such very low quality footage is in itself odd, even suspicious. Using such low quality settings could be intentional:
* to hide participants' identity,
* to hide details that would show if the shooting in the footage was real or faked, or
* to hide that it's done by people posing as pro Ukrainian fighters.
All interpretations seemed plausible, and upon further reflection, all seemed credible. I lack sufficient knowledge and the skills to make determinations on this.
Some investigation has been done.
Does video show Russian prisoners being shot?
The grainy video has been circulating on social media after first appearing in the early hours of Sunday morning (27 March). Since then, it's been widely reposted by pro-Russian accounts on various platforms.
Ukrainian armed forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Russia was "filming and distributing staged videos" in order to discredit Ukraine's treatment of Russian prisoners.
However, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said there would be an immediate investigation and added: "I would like to remind all our military, civilians and defence forces that abusing prisoners of war is a war crime."
The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner said she was "very concerned" and confirmed that the video would be investigated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/60907259
In searching for better quality footage of those two clips (in better quality was not found), I came across a third video. It had a very
similar (same?) low quality, but instead of outdoors it was taken in a dim stairway. It showed a man with bound hands, looking like he had been forced down onto the bottom stairs, with another man holding him down. It appeared that the man was stabbing him in the left shoulder and upper chest, until the victim's protests stopped and body collapsed. At first, one can't tell if the hand hitting the man is holding anything. Then it appears as possibly a knife, based on the action - details can't be discerned. Then it appears like something too long to fit the hand. Then longer again, into something that my mind is trying to identify as possibly a hunting knife or 'tactical' knife. But at the end from one lift to the next it appeared
to change into
a significantly longer and thinner blade, consistent with a dagger (seemed that the man may have switched from holding one object to another), and the man lifted his hand up as though to let the camera see it was 'a dagger' -
while the man kept his head down. The changes in what the man isn't/is holding in his hand is very odd; poor image quality? The way the hand comes up to a unnatural height is very odd, and seems more so as he keeps his head down. Watching a number of times and even frame to frame, the low quality image makes it impossible (for me) to tell if it is a knife (or knives), or that the man was or wasn't stabbed. The low image quality makes it very difficult to discern details that would be conclusive on:
* details to confirm what is portrayed by the footage
* details to reconcile the changes in appearance of what the man isn't/is holding
* acting vs. a real event
* any identities.
The audio seemed credible to me, but not conclusive. Again I lack the knowledge & skills to determine such.
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The girl kept a video diary about her life in Mariupol under constant shelling for several weeks. When she and her family got evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, she edited a video and posted it in her Telegram channel.