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Harrowing video shows last moments of Ukrainian men as they’re marched by Russian soldiers to be executed
THESE are the heartbreaking final moments of nine Ukrainian men as they are marched by a Russian soldier to their deaths.
The harrowing footage shows the PoWs hunched over and holding each others' belt as they're escorted along a street in Bucha at gunpoint.
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At one point, the Russian soldier shouts, "Walk right, b****" and points his weapon into a man's back.
The video was filmed on March 4 by a security camera and a witness in a nearby home and later obtained by .
This is the clearest evidence yet that Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine.
In one of the videos, the person recording can be heard counting the number of men as they passed by.
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"Hostages are lying there, against the fence... One, two, three, for sure, four, five, six," he said, counting nine in total.
The men are then forced to the ground before the video abruptly cuts out.
Several eyewitnesses claim the men were taken to a nearby building turned into a makeshift base when gunshots were heard. None of the captives returned.
Under international law, executing surrendered soldiers is a war crime.
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The Times was able to identify the Russian units likely to be behind the brutal executions as the 104th and 234th Airborne Assault Regimes.
Bucha was one of the first towns liberated by Ukrainian troops after Russian forces occupied it in their swoop for Kyiv.
More than 400 corpses, many of them brutally mutilated and tortured, were discovered in the town 40 miles from the capital following the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Among the atrocities reportedly uncovered by Ukrainian forces were "torture chambers" set up in basements where civilians were executed by Putin's soldiers.
Nine women and girls in Bucha became pregnant after being raped by Russian soldiers in the town.
And in April, a woman was allegedly raped and murdered by Russian soldiers there.
The body of the "beautiful" Karina Yershova, 22, was discovered mercilessly dumped in a garden with "tears" and "wounds", while all her nails - apart from one - had been torn off.
The sickening claim comes as over 60 cases of rape were reported, including two 10-year-old boys in Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said in a tweeted: "Today, in just one hour, 10 reports of rape by the [Russian] occupiers, including 8 children, were received from newly liberated villages in the Kharkiv region.
"Yesterday - 56 reports. Among the children: two 10-year-old boys and a 1-year-old boy who died of his injuries."
The unconfirmed report has been supported by a series of tweets by Ukrainian journalist Iryna Matviyishyn, who included the boy in a list of children allegedly raped by Russian soldiers.
The list also included allegations that Russians raped nine-year-old triplet girls in front of their mother and the rape of a two-year-old girl by two soldiers.
The journalist said the report had been published by Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmyla Denisova.
She added: "According to Denisova, Russians also raped two men aged 67 and 78. And, reportedly, the Commissioner's Psychological Assistance Line receives calls about such war crimes every day now.
"This is a very small part of territory that was liberated from Russians, compared to those towns, villages and cities that are still under the occupation.
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"We can only imagine the number of such atrocities in Kherson, Melitopol, Mariupol, Berdyansk, and others."
The allegations are added to the long list of horrific attacks Russian forces have launched in Ukraine.
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