The execution of a Russian soldier shown in a video by a Georgian serving in the Ukrainian army would be the result of orders from the commander of the Georgian legion, Mamuka Mumalashvili. It was he himself who reiterated the line he imposed on his men during an interview on the program Vozdukh, which airs on the YouTube channel of dissident Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a major publisher in Ukraine and supporter of Volodymyr Zelenskyy became. Mumalashvili reiterated that his orders show no hesitation when his troops manage to capture enemy soldiers: “Sometimes we tie their hands and feet he said I speak on behalf of the Georgian Legion, we will never take Russian prisoners. The Russian occupiers and the Kadyrovians (Chechens, editor’s note) will never be captured ยป. According to the BBC’s analysis of footage circulating on various Telegram channels, the execution would have taken place during the withdrawal of the Russian army from the Kyiv region, in the area between Irpin and Bucha. In recent days it has been reported that patrols of Russian soldiers have been left behind, between those who had been literally abandoned by their battalion and those who stayed behind because they were busy clearing the remains of civilians’ homes after the occupation to raid in March .
