When two unarmed Ukrainian citizens, Leonid Pliats and his employer, came under fire from Russian soldiers, the killing was recorded minute by minute by CCTV cameras.
The video, which was releasedis now being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors potentially as a war crime.
It was the culmination of the fighting around Kyiv and the main roads to the capital were a battlefield, including around the bicycle shop where Leonid worked as a security guard.
But the death of these two people is not the result of a battle between soldiers.
The video clearly shows heavily armed Russian soldiers shooting the two unarmed Ukrainians and then looting the operation.
The BBC compiled what was recorded on several CCTV cameras around the site with the testimonies of the people Leonid called that day, as well as the Ukrainian volunteer fighters who tried to save him, giving the data a reasonable chronological order. Facts.
The Russians arrive in a stolen truck with the V symbol used by the Russian forces and the words Tank Spetsnaz in black paint. They are wearing a Russian military uniform and are approaching with their weapons up, with their fingers on the trigger.
Leonid walks towards the soldiers with his hands up to show that he is unarmed and does not threaten anyone.
The Russians first talk to him and his boss through the fence. There is no sound in the video, but the men look calm, until they smoke together.
Then the Ukrainians withdraw and the soldiers begin to leave.
Suddenly they turn around, bend over and shoot the two men several times in the back.
One is killed immediately, but somehow Leonid manages to get to his feet. He even ties his belt around his thigh to slow down the bleeding and then, wandering in his cabin, starts calling for help.
Speaking to a friend by telephone after the incident, Leonid said the soldiers claimed they were not killing civilians and then shot him.
“I said can you at least bandage your wound? And he told me, I could hardly crawl here. I’m in so much pain. I’m feeling so bad,” Vassil recalls describing the phone call.
BBC
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