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Video has surfaced displaying what seem like Ukrainian troopers taking pictures males who’re apparently Russian prisoners within the knees throughout an operation within the Kharkiv area.

On the just about six-minute-long video, the Ukrainian troopers are heard saying they’ve captured a Russian reconnaissance group working from Olkhovka, a settlement in Kharkiv roughly 20 miles from the Russian border.

Requested concerning the video, a senior presidential advisor, Oleksiy Arestovych, mentioned in an interview posted on YouTube Sunday: “The federal government is taking this very severely, and there will probably be a direct investigation. We’re a European military, and we don’t mock our prisoners. If this seems to be actual, that is completely unacceptable conduct.”

In a separate briefing, Arestovych mentioned, “We deal with prisoners in accordance with the Geneva Conference, no matter your private emotional motives.”

CNN has reached out to the Ukrainian Protection Ministry for remark. In response, the ministry despatched CNN an announcement from the Armed Forces chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The assertion didn’t refer on to the incident, however mentioned, “With the intention to discredit Ukraine’s protection forces, the enemy movies and distributes staged movies displaying inhuman remedy by alleged ‘Ukrainian troopers’ of ‘Russian prisoners.’ 

“I emphasize that servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and different authentic navy formations strictly adhere to the norms of worldwide humanitarian regulation,” Zaluzhnyi mentioned. “I urge you to have in mind the realities of informational and psychological warfare and belief solely official sources.”

It is unclear which Ukrainian unit could have been concerned. The troopers converse in a mix of Ukrainian and Russian with Ukrainian accents.

The video comes as Ukrainian forces make positive aspects east and south of Kharkiv. CNN geolocated and verified an extended video uploaded on a Telegram Saturday displaying a profitable assault by Ukrainian troops of the Azov Battalion, during which they took numerous Russian prisoners in a fast assault on Olkhovka, often known as Vilkhivka.

Among the prisoners have been stripped and blindfolded.

That video was posted by Konstantin Nemichev, a Kharkiv regional official who took half within the assault on Olkhovka. He instructed CNN he was not related to the footage that emerged displaying Ukrainian troops kneecapping Russian prisoners.

“This isn’t our location … I’ve not seen such a location,” he instructed CNN on Sunday.

He steered the video was shot “perhaps someplace within the [Kharkiv] area.”

Within the first response from Russian authorities, the chairman of the investigative committee of the Russian Federation, A.I. Bastrykin, mentioned an investigation can be launched “to determine all of the circumstances of the ill-treatment of captured troopers by Ukrainian nationalists.”

In an announcement, Bastrykin mentioned: “Footage appeared on the Web during which prisoners have been handled with excessive cruelty by Ukrainian nationalists. The video circulating on-line exhibits captured troopers, being shot in each legs and never given medical help. In response to some reviews, unlawful actions came about at one of many bases of the Ukrainian nationalists in Kharkiv area.” 

CNN will not be displaying the video.