A sickening video that appears to show Putin's soldiers beheading a live Ukrainian prisoner of war with a knife has sparked fury in Kyiv with President Zelensky calling for world leaders to condemn and punish war criminals.
The barbaric footage shows a masked man violently sawing at the neck of a prisoner wearing Ukrainian insignia who is trapped beneath him on the ground.
The victim is seen writhing on the forest floor, screaming 'it hurts!' and 'stop!' as his murderer, wearing a white ribbon associated with Russian forces, hacks at his arteries with the steel blade.
A voice from another apparent Russian fighter taunts the killer to behead and break the spine of the stricken man.
'Send it to Kyiv, *****,' a voice says in a foul-mouthed rant. 'Cut it off, *****! Break the spine!'