Intercepted Russian radio heard soldiers discussing gunning down and killing civilians, Ukrainian intelligence has claimed.
One of Moscow’s commander’s allegedly was heard screaming “kill them all” after soldiers said they had innocent civilians in their sights.
Kyiv’s intelligence claimed they hacked a call during the ongoing battle of Mariupol, where an estimated 150,000 people remain trapped in the city where at least 5,000 people have been killed so far.
In the intercepted call, a Russian soldier told his commander he could see two people wearing civilian clothing.
The commander then responds: “Take them all out! Kill them all!”
The soldier replies: “Understood.”
The commander follows up with: “What are you waiting for?”
He’s told “it is a village of civilians” before the Russian commander yells: “Shoot the civilian cars.”
The clip was released by Ukrainian intelligence and has not been independently verified, but a BBC investigation suggested it was shot on or before March 29, west of Kyiv.
This is far from the only intercepted communications that seem to have exposed Russian atrocities during the ongoing war.
Germany’s spy agency picked up radio transmissions in which Russian soldiers chatted about carrying out the murders of several Ukrainians.
BND officials presented the country’s parliament with the update on Wednesday after making the interception.
News magazine Der Spiegel reported the chatter related to the deaths of people in the town of Bucha, the town occupied by Russian soldiers for more than a month and where 300 people were killed.
But a source said they could not be sure.
They said: “It's true that the federal government has indications of Russian perpetration in Bucha.
"However, these findings on Bucha refer to satellite images. The radio transmissions cannot be clearly assigned to Bucha."
In one of the transmissions a Russian is heard telling another how he shot someone on a bicycle, with some connecting it to an image of a dead body seen next to a bike in Bucha.
In another a soldier says: “Firstly you question the soldier, then you shoot them.”
Last month in intercepted radio transmissions Russian soldiers were heard talking of “raping girls” and “eating dogs” in horrifying audio clips.
In audio obtained by the Ukrainian Security Service (SSU), Russian soldiers can be heard nonchalantly speaking in their native language about the vile acts to others over the radio.
“We have three tank guys here,” a man can be heard saying in the first clip.
“They raped a girl.”
A woman’s voice interrupts, to ask “who did?”
“The three tankers,” the man responds. “She was 16 years old.”
The woman asks if he’s talking about “our guys”, to which the man responds “yep”.
The next audio clip opens with a male voice asking another man “are you eating okay at least?”
In response, the second male voice responds, “not too bad”.
“We had Alabay (dog) yesterday”.
It comes as Vladimir Putin' s flunky Dmitry Peskov insisted no war crimes have been committed in Ukraine on the same day Russia was kicked out of the UN Human Rights Council.
Putin's press secretary branded the claims the Russian military was shelling civilians as "fake" and went as far as to say the atrocities in Bucha were a "well-staged simulation".
Speaking to Mark Austin on Sky News this afternoon from his office in the Kremlin, Peskov reasserted his leader's position that the Russian invasion was a "special military operation", claiming his country was under a security threat.
Mark challenged Peskov on if what was happening in Ukraine was really going to plan if they were withdrawing.
Peskov said the troops are really withdrawing as "an act of goodwill between Russia and Ukraine" to "lift regional tension" and "show Russia is ready to create comfortable conditions".
Peskov said: "We insist that Bucha is a well-staged simulation...those people you see...they are not victims of Russia."
When faced with graphic images of the massacre in Bucha, Peskov double-down saying they were fake and staged after the Russian military had withdrawn, despite Mark insisting they have been verified and geolocated.
He said: "I will tell you it's fake.”
Earlier today Russia followed Syria in 2011 in being suspended from the UN Human Rights Council after a vote of the UN General Council.
She said during a visit to Romania: "Russia's participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce.”
