Ukrainian army soldiers walk along a highway on the outskirts of the city of Mykolaiv. File photoMOSCOW, March 28The Kremlin saw footage of torture of Russian prisoners of war, those involved in these actions should be held accountable, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of Russia. Earlier, footage appeared on the Internet in which captured Russian soldiers were shot in the legs. It is specified that this happened at one of the bases of Ukrainian nationalists in the Kharkiv region.Videos of torture of Russian soldiers were indignant in Crimea» We certainly saw these, as well as other facts, will be checked — you know that our Investigative Committee has taken up this. Quite monstrous footage. Of course, they need a legal assessment, and those those who took part in these tortures are subject to prosecution. They must be held accountable for their actions,» Peskov said, answering the question of journalists whether the Kremlin had seen a video of the ill-treatment of Russian prisoners of war and whether they plan to raise this issue at the international level. Sunday, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to establish all the circumstances of the ill-treatment of Ukrainian nationalists with captured Russian servicemen. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the forces of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. on the investigation of the prison case in Mariupol
