Captured Kremlin soldiers have alleged to Ukrainian forces that their commanders are slaughtering wounded Russian troops rather than seeking medical treatment, Mirror reported.
The soldiers claimed that a Russian lieutenant colonel has killed multiple injured troops. Recalling one account, the prisoners said the lieutenant colonel asked one soldier if he could walk, shooting him dead after he replied that he could not.
"It was a young man; he was wounded," a soldier explained to Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin. "He was on the ground. He was asked if he could walk, so he was shot dead with a gun."
Another prisoner jumped in: "The most important thing — this wasn't a single case.
"He shot four or five like this," a third captured soldier explained, adding that the "young men" could have been taken care of.
The news follows multiple reports since the beginning of the conflict that Russia has used mobile crematoriums to hide evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, according to The Hill.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of Ukrainian-occupied territories in Donetsk, said that Russian troops were destroying the bodies in an attempt to hide "evidence of genocide."
"They are using mobile crematoriums and mobile cremation machines and, also, taking people out, taking bodies of the dead in the street and the dead from collapsing buildings," Kyrylenko said.
"They're hiding since the emergence of the evidence of war crimes in Bucha and the evidence of genocide. They're now hiding the evidence," he added.
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