Russian propaganda spreads fake news of "punishing captured Ukrainian defender" 

The Ukrainian soldier in question is a volunteer with the Revansh battalion Stanislav Kolomiyets, who before the full-scale enemy invasion headed the municipal inspection in Cherkasy City Council. He is currently in Kyiv and not on the opposite side of the front line in Donbas, where he is in captivity, allegedly "apologizing" to Russian soldiers. This was announced today, December 25, 2022, by former Ukrainian MP Ihor Mosiychuk.

Kolomiets is the godfather of Mosiychuk’s children.

"I'm laughing, I just can't. I'm talking on the phone with Stanislav Kolomiyets and his wife Hanna Kolomiyets, who are driving in our beautiful capital, and then a message comes that the godfather of my children was "captured and punished" during a night storming of Bakhmut," Mosiychuk wrote on Facebook.

"What kind of crap do Kremlin propagandists feed Russians, driving them to slaughter in Ukraine!" the politician added.

"Do not worry, they killed and captured me 10 times in their imagination already," Ihor Mosiychuk quoted Stanislav Kolomiyets.

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HE WAS FOUND AND PUNISHED

Russian Special Forces stormed Bakhmut’s urban area at night, and in the fighting they captured an AFU soldier, who in front of our fallen fighters called them jackals and looters. 

HE WAS FOUND, CAPTURED AND PUNISHED

Russian Special Forces stormed Bakhmut’s urban area at night, and in the fighting they captured an AFU soldier, who in front of our fallen fighters called them jackals and looters, threatened to “destroy and cut throats of Russian soldiers”, “kill Russian wives and children”, “shoot captured soldiers’ kneecaps.”

Wagner PMC shot a brutal video of him, 18+.

1:37 - pleads to be speared;

2:24 - kneeled to ask forgiveness;

3:49 - gets his kneecaps shot.

You can watch the video on a special 18+ channel.

At the same time, Russian Telegram channels spread a video where the "prisoner" allegedly knelt in front of them and "apologized". However, he was "severely punished".