The execution shown in a video of a Russian soldier by a Georgian in force with the Ukrainian army would be the result of the orders given by the commander of the Georgian Legion Mamuka Mumalashvili. It was he himself who reiterated the line imposed on his men during an interview on the Vozdukh broadcast, broadcast on the YouTube channel of the dissident Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a large editor in Ukraine and supporter of Volodymyr Zelensky. Mumalashvili reiterated that his orders do not include any kind of hesitation when his troops manage to capture enemy soldiers: “Sometimes we tie them hand and foot – he said – I speak on behalf of the Georgian Legion, we will never take prisoners Russians. The Russian occupiers and the Kadyrovians (Chechens, ed) will never be taken prisoner ». According to the analysis of the Bbc on the footage circulating on various Telegram channels, the execution would have taken place during the withdrawal of the Russian army from the Kiev region, in the area between Irpin and Bucha. Over the past few days, patrols of Russian soldiers had been reported left behind, between those who had been literally abandoned by their battalion and those who had lingered because they were engaged in raiding what was left of the homes of civilians after the occupation in March.
