A soldier replies: “Understood.”
The commander then says: “What are you waiting for?” before he is told “it is a village of civilians”. The Russian chief then yells: “Shoot the civilian cars.”
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Perspective is architect of perception RUSSIAN troops received orders to slaughter civilians, Ukraine’s intelligence service claimed last night.
A furious Russian commander allegedly screamed “kill them all” after soldiers warned him they had innocent villagers in their sights.
Ukrainian spies claimed they hacked a call during the battle of Mariupol, where 150,000 people remain trapped by a Russian siege.
At least 5,000 people are thought to have been killed in weeks of relentless bombardment.
In the intercepted radio call, which could not be verified, a Russian soldier tells his commander that he can see two people wearing civilian clothes.
Their commander yells: “Kill them all!”
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A soldier replies: “Understood.”
The commander then says: “What are you waiting for?” before he is told “it is a village of civilians”. The Russian chief then yells: “Shoot the civilian cars.”
The claim emerged as Ukrainian troops were accused of killing Russian prisoners of war.
A video appears to show four paratroopers lying on a road in pools of blood.
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Send weapons fast
Ukraine needs “weapons, weapons, weapons” the country’s foreign minister told Nato yesterday.
Dmytro Kuleba said: “Either you help us now — and I’m speaking about days, not weeks, or your help will come too late.”
He added: “My agenda is very simple. It’s weapons, weapons and weapons. The more we get, and the sooner they arrive, the more human lives will be saved.”
Western officials say Ukraine needs longer-range weapons as the war enters a new phase.
Britain has shipped around 4,000 NLAW anti-tank missiles and Starstreak surface-to-air rockets and is poised to send armoured vehicles.
The Czech Republic has delivered Soviet tanks which the Ukrainians know how to use.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the Brussels meeting allies “are determined to do more”.
At least one of the men is still alive when a jeering Ukrainian soldier opens fire.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said it was “trying to verify” the clip, but a BBC investigation suggested it was shot on or before March 29, west of the capital Kyiv.
Mounting evidence of Russian atrocities has emerged from towns outside Kyiv, where its troops have been forced to retreat.
The former captain of Ukraine’s rugby team, Oleksi Tsibko, 55, and ballet dancer Artem Datsyshyn were named among the dead in Bucha. Dozens of dead bodies have been found there with their hands tied behind their back.
At least 400 are known to have died with hundreds more missing.
German spies said other intercepted radio calls appear to show Russian troops discussing the slaughter.
In one, a Russian says he shot dead a person on a bicycle.
In another a speaker reveals Russian forces interrogated enemy soldiers before killing them.
In Bucha, Nadeja Cherednichenko said she found her dead son Volodymyr, 27, who had been shot through the ear with all five fingers on his left hand broken.
The surprise retreat has revealed shocking scenes of devastation — with huge convoys of tanks and trucks completely obliterated by Russian forces.
Over two days 16 sabotage and reconnaissance units have been caught by joint actions in Kyiv itself. We thought it was quiet, but the enemy is here.
Oleksandr Hruzevych
Meanwhile, residents have started to return to Kyiv rebuild their lives. However officials warned that Russian spies were also trying to sneak in with gadgets to guide missiles.
Oleksandr Hruzevych, Army deputy chief of staff, said: “Over two days 16 sabotage and reconnaissance units have been caught by joint actions in Kyiv itself. We thought it was quiet, but the enemy is here.
“Only yesterday we conducted a sweep of one area and caught one group: a bunch of sensors, which are used to guide missiles.”
In the far east of the country people have been told to flee amid fears that Russia is plotting a major offensive.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded more sanctions to prevent an onslaught.
He said: “If there is no really painful package of sanctions against Russia and if there is no supply of weapons we really need and have applied for many times, it will be considered by Russia as a permission. A permission to go further… A permission to start a new bloody wave in Donbas.”
Russian forces are currently attacking from the north at Izyum, the east in Donbas, and they are poised to advance from the south.
Women, children and the elderly were urged to flee from Dnipro, Ukraine’s third largest city.
It followed a similar warning for civilians to “flee or face death” in the frontline regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Western officials warned that Russia is focusing on the Donbas region, which has been partly controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014.
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin’s spokesman yesterday admitted “significant losses of troops” but denied committing war crimes.
Dmitry Peskov continued to insist it was not a war, but a “special military operation” as Ukraine had been an “anti-Russian centre” since 2014.
He also claimed Russia withdrew from regions of Kyiv and Chernihiv as an act of “goodwill” and dismissed photos of dead civilians as “fake”.
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Russia was yesterday suspended from the UN Human Rights Council as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine.
Of the 193 members of the assembly, 93 voted in favour of the US proposal with 24 against and 58 abstentions. It was the only the second-ever suspension of a country — following Libya in 2011.
Invasion paras in mutiny
By Will Stewart
AROUND 60 Russian paratroopers staged a mutiny and refused to fight in Ukraine, it was reported.
The refusenik troops had been moved to Belarus as part of the invasion force but had to be sent back to their base in disgrace.
Some have been dismissed while others are set to face a court martial with likely jail sentences.
Defence minister Sergei Shoigu is said to have sent a deputy to Pskov, a key HQ of Russia’s most elite airborne forces, to handle the insubordination.
The report in Russian opposition outlet Pskovskaya Guberniya is the latest of several on Russian troops disobeying orders.
In another account, troops reportedly walked home after refusing to fight.
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