He Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has opened an investigation to clarify who are the material authors of a video that has been made viral on social networks and that shows the beheading with a knife of a living Ukrainian soldier.

The terrible images have been spread through social networks but they are from last summer. Presumably, its authors would be mercenaries of the Russian group Wagner. The video of the beheading was circulating on Russian social networks and was discovered by the US television network CNN along with another similar, more recent recording in which the bodies of two beheaded Ukrainian soldiers can be seen.

The latter would have been beheaded by mercenaries from the Wagner group of Russian mercenaries after dying in an explosion.

“Yesterday a video of the Russian occupiers appeared on a network that demonstrates their bestial nature, in which a Ukrainian prisoner whose head is cut off is brutally tortured,” says the Ukrainian secret service in an official note published in his Telegram channel.

The images have generated a wave of convictions by the authorities of Ukraine and its president, Volodimir Zelenskyhas urged the international community to “reactRemembering that this is not an isolated case.

“There is something that the world cannot ignore: the easy to kill these beasts“, Zelenski has cried, in a message condemning the “execution” of a compatriot. For the Russians, “there are no people”, but they try to make this type of abuse “the new normal”, according to the president.

“Everyone must react. All the leaders. Do not expect it to be forgotten,” added Zelenski, who has promised that there will be no forgiveness “for the murderers.” In this sense, he has appealed to the “legal responsibility” of the Russian military, in a message in which he has called not only to “defeat the occupier” but also to “sentence the murderers“The defeat of terror is necessary,” Zelensky has claimed, calling on his international allies to help Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.

For his part, the Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba, condemned the “horrible video” and dismissed as “absurd” that Russia, which “it’s worse than Islamic State”, may be chairing the UN Security Council this month. “Russian terrorists must be expelled from Ukraine and the UN and held accountable for their crimes,” he added.

The Kremlin asks to verify the video

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has affirmed this Wednesday that the video must be “verified”. “To begin with, we must verify the veracity of the images,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskovin his daily press conference.

Peskov has admitted that these are “terrible” images, but has insisted on studying their authenticity. “That may give reason to investigate whether it actually happened, and if so, who did it and where”, he added.