The state news agency RIA Novosti presented the finishing off of a fellow serviceman by Russian fighters as the finishing off of a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier. The video was published in 2024, as ASTRA wrote about it at the time
The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published a note:
“A Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter in the DPR finished off a fellow soldier who stepped on a mine with a shot to the head. In the footage obtained by RIA Novosti, a group of Ukrainian soldiers is moving across an open area, one of them steps on a mine. His fellow soldier, without attempting to provide medical assistance, shoots the wounded man, and then continues moving.”
Attached to the text is video evidence taken from a drone - in 2024, the state channel “Russia 24” already published this video with the same accusation of involvement of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in the shooting of their own fighter.
However, in reality, it is not a Ukrainian soldier who shoots his wounded comrade, but a Russian soldier, as ASTRA wrote last year. The footage was filmed by a drone by Ukrainian servicemen of the 118th Brigade, namely a soldier with the call sign “Shustry” near the village of Rabotino in the Zaporizhia region. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the capture of Rabotino on May 15, 2024.
RIA Novosti deleted its publication.
Pretty funny seeing it happen for the second time