video of atrocities, including this surveillance video obtained by cnn which shows russian soldiers shooting two unarmed civilians as they walked away from an encounter on the outskirts of kyiv. prosecutors say they are investigating this as a war crime. nic robertson is in finland this morning. s sara, tell us more. this camera stayed on, showing this all the way through from beginning to end. it is incredibly disturbing to watch but what it reveals are russian soldiers shooting two men as they walk away. this is a stark example of a potential war crime perspetrate by russian forces, an example the world has not yet seen, russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back. cnn obtained the surveillance video taken from this dealership video. russians tried and failed to shell their way to the capitol. the fight along this road was clearly fierce. but what happened outside this business was not a battle between soldiers or even soldiers and armed civilians. it was a cowa
justice will be meted out here. we know from prosecutors today they are working as we speak to try and identify these men so they can be charged with what they say are war crimes. to note again, what was the target here? it wasn t a military base, it was a car rental company. the russian soldiers came and shot people in the back at a car rental dealership. it s just the way this war is being waged. they rented out campers and bicycles. and when you look at this, what you sort of see the two gentlemen thinking they had sort of talked their way out of any problem. they walk away very calmly, they re not running, there is no fighting. of this just out of the blue shot from behind by these soldiers who have weapons of war. but what you re also seeing here i think is not just callousness but trying to dehumanize ukrainians. we ve heard that over and over and over in villages with
you say, this back and forth. there is an opportunity for the ukrainians right now, this counterattack that they re conducting around kharkiv to the east, if they could get that as far east as to the izium supply lines, there is an opportunity here for the ukrainians but more than likely it s going to be as you say a frozen conflict with the fighting going back and forth for months, if not years. our correspondent just brought us video of those two civilians being shot in the back by soldiers. ukraine s prosecutor general announced yesterday a 21-year-old russian soldier is going to stand trial for war crimes for alleged lly killing unarmed civilian. i spoke to a prosecutor if had
border against candidly a country that was beat by finland in the winter war in 1941, but you re also in many ways bottling up the baltic s fleet and one of the major concerns that putin has was the fact that if ukraine became a member of nato, you d be bottling up to some extent the black sea fleet. this is not just about land territory, it s about sea territory as well. which is important to point out. i do want to say let s move to ukraine, if we could. in the last 24 hours ukrainians have blown up at least two pontoon bridges in the luhansk regions, we heard them say they re taking back territory but we re seeing gains in the east for russia. there s a lot of back and forth here. is it your sense that this is sort of what we are settling into, more of this back and forth for months or potentially even years to come? i think it could very well turn foo a frozen conflict, as
they can t, they re under threat. the biden administration has fast tracked the process for ukrain ukrainian refugees. ukrainians, who our hearts go out to can simply apply to the u.s. for something they call humanitarian parole. they just are to claim that they ve been displaced by the russian invasion since february. the application fees for that type of assistance to come to the united states are waive had had entirely for all ukrainian, whereas afghans have to spend a $575 feet per person. that s more money than the average afghan makes in a year and have to submit a letter on taliban letterhead that calls them out by name as somebody who is subject to their persecution. that s the standard to seek