Captured Russian Troops Claim Commanders 'Finished Off' Their Own Wounded Soldiers

Russian commanders are slaughtering their injured soldiers instead of getting them out of the battlefield for medical treatment, captured Russian troops in Ukraine have claimed in a video.

In the video interview given to Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin for the news outlet Open Media Ukraine, a group of Russia's young army intelligence troops captured by Ukrainians alleged that their officers "finished off" their wounded soldiers.

One of the captured soldiers recollected how a lieutenant colonel asked a wounded comrade if he could walk, and when the soldier replied he could not, the official shot him dead along with other injured soldiers, the New York Post reported.

"Just like that…a wounded soldier is lying on the ground, and a battalion's commander shoots him dead from a gun," the soldier told Zolkin. "It was a young man, he was wounded. He was on the ground. He was asked if he could walk, so he was shot dead with a gun."

The high-ranking official then "shot four or five like this, they were all young men," another Russian soldier in captivity said, adding that the incident was not a single case.

"They could have been rescued, given help, taken out of there. He simply shot them dead," a third soldier recollected the ordeal, Siasat reported.

However, it is unclear from the video where the alleged incidents occurred and where the Russian soldiers were held in captivity.

Reports of the alleged atrocities came soon after accusations about Russia's failure to take back its dead soldiers emerged.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said their officials have "no information" about the dead and wounded troops in Ukraine, the New York Post reported, citing Ostorozhno Media.

When asked about the details of the soldiers in captivity and reports about the families who have not received the bodies of their loved ones, Peskov reportedly answered, "We do not have this information. It is with the Ministry of Defense."

Meanwhile, there have also been recent reports of demoralized Russian soldiers ending their lives on the frontline to avoid the conflict.