Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke out Wednesday against a graphic video posted online that purports to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being decapitated by a Russian fighter.
Ukrainian security services said the video was posted online Tuesday. In it, a victim appears to initially be alive as he is attacked with a knife.
CBS News was unable to independently verify the authenticity of the video or confirm where or when it was recorded."We will find these monsters. If necessary, we will get them wherever they are: from under the ground or from another world. But they will definitely be punished for what they have done," the head of the security service, Vasyl Maliuk, said in a statement.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a briefing Wednesday that,"The authenticity of this horrible footage needs to be verified. We live in a world of fakes.""The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine is appalled by particularly gruesome videos posted on social media," the mission said in a statement.
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