The Ukrainian military has announced that it has identified its brave soldier whose last words before being executed by the Russians were “Glory to Ukraine”, as the POW’s killing was captured on video and shared on social media.

The name of the deceased was Tymofiy Mykolayovych Sadura, a soldier of the 30th mechanized brigade, who participated in the battles near the city of Bakhmut in the east of the country and was considered missing since February 3, the Ukrainian army reports. said

“The shooting of an unarmed prisoner is a cynical and flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law and the laws of war. This is what vile criminals do, not combatants. The Russian invaders once again demonstrated that their main goal in Ukraine is only the brutal extermination of Ukrainians,” the source said.

“Even the death of one of our soldiers will not go unpunished. But we will do it in a legal and fair way – on the battlefield, in a court of law or an international tribunal. Cold-bloodedly, following the rules of war and with honor, we will certainly take revenge on all of them! Eternal memory and glory to the hero!”, the Ukrainian army said.

Before the execution, the brave soldier said “Glory to Ukraine”.

The backlash came after a video surfaced on social media showing an unarmed Ukrainian soldier, who looks like a prisoner of war, smoking a cigarette and being heard saying “Glory to Ukraine” before being peppered with a hail of bullets. A voice is heard: “Shut up, you bastard!” in Russian

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On Monday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to the video clip “showing how the occupiers brutally killed a soldier who courageously told them to their face: ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ “I want us all to respond to his words together: “Glory to the hero! Glory to heroes! Glory to Ukraine! We will find criminals,” he added.

Reward for the names of the guilty

Renowned lawyer Masi Nayem, who was wounded last year during hostilities in eastern Ukraine, has announced a fundraiser that will be offered as a reward to anyone who identifies the culprits.

He personally promised $1,000, and, as reported by Gazeta.ua, several citizens responded to his announcement, some of whom declared their readiness to offer even more. The reward for the names of the killers reached 20,000 dollars, reports Gazeta.ua, transferred to Agerpres.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin reported in Telegram that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) registered the shooting of a Ukrainian soldier as a criminal case under the part of the Criminal Code that deals with violations of the laws and customs of war.

“Even war has its own laws,” he said, adding that the case would be handled by prosecutors from his office.

“There are norms of international law that are systematically ignored” by the criminal Russian regime. But sooner or later the punishment will come,” said the Ukrainian official.

The man in the video was a Ukrainian prisoner of war, and the incident is part of Russia’s “targeted policy of terror,” said the head of the President’s Office in Kyiv, Andriy Yermak. “Killing a prisoner is Russia’s latest war crime,” Yermak wrote on Twitter. “There will be retribution for every such war crime,” he adds.