Where's the rifle? Where's the shouldering? Looks like he got shot right at the 0:20-0:21 mark and then the camera turns away. Trying to make flimsy excuses for executing unarmed captives is pretty pathetic, even for Ukraine.
Even if
one soldier shot at the Ukrainians, it doesn't justify killing the
nineteen others who surrendered.
Here's something a lot of people missed while sperging over a missile nothingburger:
"In Lisichansk direction, the personnel of 81-st Airmobile Brigade of the AFU that operate in Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) refused to subordinate to the command and to fulfill combat tasks due to large casualties and low morale. The militants sent to Belogorovka from one of the Ukrainian Nazi groups executed by shooting 5 Ukrainian servicemen to impose order and to intimidate the Brigade's personnel".

This was reported by the Russia's MoD Wednesday but its been circulating in Ukrainian Telegram. Here's another from a private channel (so I can't link).
"Another scandal erupted in Ukraine over the fact that the command of the 81st Independent Airmobile Brigade (IAB) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is hiding information about the killed, wounded and missing servicemen from their relatives. Relatives of the elite 81st IAB of the AFU are sounding the alarm because the brigade’s command refuses to divulge data on the dead, wounded and missing.(an entire investigation into the episode was published online in Ukrainian).
The 81st IAB became known all over Ukraine due to efforts of the Ukrainian media. “They [the command] resolutely refuse to show the real situation in the brigade, where the relatives of the fighters do not stop looking for their soldiers,” the text notes.
The problem of the missing in the brigade is “no one is solving it, and Kiev continues to gloss over it. Relatives of the servicemen are forced to appeal to all the authorities they know: the military enlistment offices, the presidential office, the military unit’s permanent deployment point (PDP). The military registration and enlistment offices, according to the investigation, advise them to contact the brigade, and the military unit’s PDP informs relatives that no information is available. When relatives manage to get through to the brigade’s service number, the reply is that they are asked to give the source of the number, even though it is an official number.
The brigade’s command monitors the relatives’ search activities on the Internet to “discourage” them, issuing blasphemous advice over and over again. “Go to church, put a candle”, “No one will tell you anything” or “Sit quietly, don’t write to anyone on social media”, the brigade commanders tell relatives. The text of the investigation closes with the words that a dead or missing serviceman is a waste of time for the brigade leadership. Criminal Silence has become the real face of the modern Ukrainian authorities and the AFU command.Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry reported that Russian fire strikes on positions of the 81st Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU killed up to 20 soldiers and wounded more than 50 near the village of Krasnopolye ".
So clearly, there's been a high casualty rate and its affected unit capabilities and cohesion, but they're expected to perform nonetheless. When they balk, the Ukronazis are sent out to enforce Kiev's edicts, and there's talk they execute those who do not comply.
This is what all the little Nazi larpers on here failed, or refuse, to grasp; Ukraine's Nazi goons are just a terror squad used against her own people, to terrorize them into compliance. Sort of a beefed up Antifa goon squad, but with real weapons, schizos criminals, and nutters given free reign, lots of money, gibs, media attention and preferential treatment as long as they force the general population into compliance. This isn't at all novel or new; ISIS goons were known for engaging in the the exact same tactics. The general Ukrainian population seems fed up with these faggots, so while I don't expect them to suddenly run over and welcome Russia, there's going to be serious pushback from the general population.
I have a feeling this may be coming soon to America. Keep an eye out for any "militias", left or right wing, that get a lot adoring and fawning articles written about them. Ukraine is nothing more than a proving ground for the disgusting filth in charge of America, who would have absolutely no qualms over arming a bunch of Nazi larpers and giving them carte blanche to keep the population in check.
Thank the Lord for all those unregistered weapons lost in boating accidents.