The brutal footage – confirmed on Friday by a Ukrainian politician and journalist – shows camouflaged soldiers allegedly led by Vitaly Arosanov kicking the ailing soldier in the head as he is tied with ropes to the floor. With his mouth gagged, the tortured prisoner moans in despair as the soldiers rip open his trousers to reveal his back. As he writhes and moans, they use a box cutter to hack at his genitals, eventually cutting them off and throwing them on the ground nearby. “After the torture, he was shot and killed and his body was dragged through the streets with a rope,” war news website Ukraine Watch said on Friday of a second part of the video, which it declined to share “for ethical reasons.” The torture first appeared on Thursday on several Russian Telegram channels as a sickening warning to Ukrainian mothers not to send their sons to war, the Kyiv Post reported. The soldiers speak in Russian and stand near a car with a capital letter Z, the symbol used for the Kremlin’s troops. Vitaly Arosanov is accused of leading troops who castrated and tortured a Ukrainian prisoner. East2west NewsFootage shows Russian troops allegedly castrating and beating a Ukrainian soldier before killing him. Scott Olson/Getty Images Other posts included photos of the body of a Ukrainian soldier with his hands cut off and his head planted on a fence, the paper said. Mikhailo Podolyak, a journalist, negotiator and adviser to the Ukrainian president, was among local officials who on Friday confirmed the video’s authenticity, pledging to “identify and get to each and every one” of the “executioners” who invaded. He said that “the world must realize” that Russia is “a country of cannibals who enjoy torture and murder.” Russian soldiers used a box cutter to cut off the genitals of a Ukrainian prisoner. Ukraine has vowed to hunt down Russian soldiers who allegedly castrated a Ukrainian prisoner. Social Media East2west News Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun was also among those who shared part of the torture video. “Russia must pay for it. … People can’t pretend this isn’t happening,” he wrote. She later broke Twitter for taking it down for being “too harsh”. “But it happens. And deleting the video won’t change that. The world needs to know what #Russia is doing!”. it boiled. Russian soldiers tear Ukrainian’s uniform. Paul Massaro, senior policy adviser for the Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe, said the “sick evil perpetrated by the Russian invaders” should be a signal to the world to “help Ukraine end it”. “The brutality and corruption of the Russian invaders is revolting. Castration, murders, rapes, killing children, leveling cities. Irresistible evil,” he tweeted. John Spencer, the US military veteran who chairs the Washington-based Civil War Studies, also called on world leaders to act. Russian soldier Vitaly Arosanov is seen firing a machine gun.East2west News “I just watched the video showing Russian soldiers cutting off the genitals of Ukrainian prisoners. How do you see this? WTF are we waiting to stop this evil?’ He wrote. It is unclear when and where the video was recorded, but some of the Russian soldiers appeared to be the same as those featured in other propaganda videos broadcast by the Kremlin-backed RT media outlet.
