A war crimes investigation into the Special Air Service is underway due to allegations that its personnel executed numerous Taliban suspects while they were in captivity.
The Daily Mail has been informed by soldiers that they were aware of the alleged commander-covered behaviour in 2010 and 2011.
There was mounting concern today as the so-called SAS death squads’ tactics of shooting people to death could no longer be denied.
The strange deaths of Afghans taken by the elite troops were, according to the Ministry of Defense, thoroughly probed.
However, additional proof is surfacing that the SAS impeded the Royal Military Police’s investigation.
Overnight, Russian missiles poured down on the second-largest city in Ukraine as the local governor charged that Putin’s forces were engaging in “absolute terrorism” by attacking civilians.
Between Sunday night and Monday morning, three different attacks fired from Russia blew up a school, an apartment building, and a factory in Kharkiv.
Regional Governor Oleh Syneihubov reported that at least three people have died and “scores” more have been hurt, including youngsters between the ages of four and sixteen.
Syneihubov criticized Putin’s commanders for what he called their “total terrorism,” claiming that the targets were “exclusively civilian.”
As its offensive in the east has come to an end, Russia has increased its strikes on civilians. On Saturday, rockets hit an apartment building in Chasiv Yar.
Rescue efforts are still underway despite the fact that at least 19 people have died in the attack on the town, which is primarily populated by employees of the local companies.
Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, two significant cities in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, were recently captured by Putin’s men, giving them control over the entirety of Luhansk.
However, since then, their attack has stalled. According to Kyiv, it seems like commanders are taking a “operation pause” to reorganize and rearm before attacking again.
That hasn’t stopped Russian artillery units from bombarding neighboring towns, though.
Settlements near the administrative border with the Donetsk region were hit by shelling, according to the governor of the Luhansk region on Monday.
According to Serhiy Haidai, Kremlin forces shelled the region with four heavy shelling rounds and five missile attacks.
In the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which includes the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, separatist insurgents have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
The last significant Ukrainian opposition stronghold in Luhansk, the city of Lysychansk, was taken by Russia earlier this month.
Some commentators believed Moscow’s forces would need some time to reload and reorganize after seizing Lysychansk, but according to Ukrainian officials, strikes have continued unabated.
According to the British military, Russian troops were not receiving the proper breaks.
Online videos appeared to indicate that at least one tank brigade in the conflict was “mentally and physically exhausted” as a result of having been on active combat duty since the conflict began in February, the Ministry of Defence noted on Twitter.
The Russian (defence ministry) is having trouble fixing various personnel concerns within the deployed troops, according to the MoD, including the absence of regular breaks from difficult combat situations.
The cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, which are close to Lysychansk, are likely to be Russia’s next targets after the country’s “operational pause” has ended.
Russia would gain control of a major portion of the Donetsk province, which together with Luhansk makes up the Donbas, if those two cities were taken.
Putin argues that his sole war objective now is to dominate the Donbas after failing to capture Kyiv.
However, his army will also be required to send troops to defend some of southern Ukraine, as Kiev claims a significant counterattack is set to start.
According to Oleksii Reznikov, the defence minister for Ukraine, President Zelensky has instructed his generals to devise a strategy for retaking the south of the nation, much of which was captured by Putin’s forces early in the conflict.
Before Russia attacked, Ukraine withdrew much of its forces from the south in order to concentrate on defending the Kyiv capital.
But now that Russia has abandoned its attempt to conquer the city and has withdrawn, Zelensky seems to be prioritizing a stronger retreat to the south.
As he begged western officials for more arms to accomplish the job, Reznikov told The Times that Ukraine’s armed forces now number one million.
The initial goal is Kherson, a crucial strategic city that spans the Dnipro River and is currently the only regional capital to fall to Putin.
Enerhodar, which is home to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the port city of Berdyansk, and the city of Melitopol are further locations now held by Russia that are expected to be high on Ukraine’s hit list.
The long-term goal of Ukraine will undoubtedly be to retake Crimea from Putin’s soldiers; yet, because the peninsula is virtually one large military base, doing so would be very difficult.