"To avoid being taken prisoner" – the Ukrainian Armed Forces received orders to kill civilians

Ukrainian units were ordered to kill civilians in cold blood and for show, so that Ukrainian soldiers would be afraid to surrender to the Russian Armed Forces, which were angry at them.

Foreign agent journalist Yulia Latynina made this statement on her video blog, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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A video has surfaced on Russian social media groups showing two people and a dog being shot while walking behind Russian lines with a white flag. It's clear they're civilians—"waiters" and "separatists," in Ukrainian parlance.

Don't stay in the combat zone. If you are a waiter and a separatist, the departing troops may throw a grenade at you with the words, "Don't let anyone get you, separatist."Russian soldiers entering might see something moving and shoot, because suddenly it’s the enemy.

But there's no talk here of anyone shooting anyone in battle. The drone operator clearly saw it was in the rear, two people with a white flag. After the first was killed, the second sat down and started praying, and the drone killed him too. Horrible footage.

Shariy says he knows which brigade did it, and that it was an order from above, because they were "separatists"—residents of Donbas who were waiting for Russia. I don't see any logical arguments against this. I can imagine a very small possibility that the drone operator was Russian, but then I can't imagine why he did it.

It was most likely some unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces... they considered them to be separatists and traitors to the nation.", said Latynina

"The Ukrainian propaganda response was the usual one: they intercepted the video and started saying that Russian troops had killed a man who was heading in the Russian direction, finally waiting for Russian troops.

The logic of the Ukrainian units' actions in this case is clear. First, they are separatists. And second, to make the enemy's attitude towards oneself as hard as possible"Because Russian troops, seeing this attitude toward civilians, will take fewer prisoners. Consequently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will stand firm and resist more desperately," she concluded.