Drone shows moment Putin's killers shoot dead Ukrainian troops trying to surrender

FOOTAGE of up to nine Ukrainian soldiers apparently being shot dead by Russians while surrendering went viral yesterday.

- Mark Reynolds

The drone video is said to have been filmed near Ivanivske village, close to the eastern city of Bakhmut, on Saturday.

In what Kyiv sources say is the third such killing of surrendering troops in the past month, Ukrainian soldiers emerge from a frontline trench as Vladimir Putin's forces make territorial gains.

Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko said on X: "Russians shoot Ukrainian soldiers [who] surrendered into captivity.

"Evil must be stopped and punished...

Give Ukraine weapons!" Russian opposition channel February Morning said: "The invaders shot nine the unarmed Ukrainian prisoners in Bakhmut direction. The barbarity of Putin's non-humans knows no bounds." Under international rules, the soldiers should have been taken as prisoners of war.