A surveillance camera recording obtained by the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty captured the moment of the death of 70-year-old Bucha resident Volodymyr Rubailo, who was shot by Russian soldiers on Yablunska Street on March 4, 2022. Still images from this video were published in June of this year, but the full recording has only now been made public.
The footage shows the man first being shot, then finally being killed with a bullet to the head. One of the soldiers approaches the body and takes something from Volodymyr Rubailo’s pocket.
After that, the same group of soldiers goes towards a nearby grocery store and begins looting it. They carry out food and bottles — presumably alcohol — in baskets and shopping carts, then load them into bags. They later drank the looted liquid right in front of the cameras. At one point, one of the soldiers noticed the camera and smashed it with a sword he had in his possession.
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According to Radio Liberty’s investigation, the crime may be linked to soldiers of the 234th Air Assault Regiment from Pskov, a unit of which was stationed in that area. Journalists suggest that the shots were fired from a position where, according to conclusions reached by Ukrainian ballistics experts, a squad under the command of Russian Sergeant Vladimir Borzunov had been located.
In a conversation with a Radio Liberty correspondent, Sergeant Borzunov confirmed that Rubailo, along with Oleksandr Konovalov and Ihor Horodetskyi, had been killed by Russian soldiers, but he denied that he or his subordinates were involved in their murders. Journalists discovered that it was Borzunov himself who retrieved something from Rubailo’s pocket.
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