The New York Times publishes the wiretapping of Russian soldiers: Putin's crazy, we have orders to kill civilians.

One of them listens to a soldier telling his girlfriend that he has taken orders to kill anyone who stands before him” as UN investigators investigate Russia committing war crimes in Ukraine.

A Russian soldier in Kiev confessed during a telephone conversation that his commander had ordered soldiers to kill Ukrainian civilians not to discover their whereabouts, which is a war crime under international law, writes Yahoo.

That call was just one of many telephone calls carried out in March among Russian soldiers -- calls that were tapped in the Buka-a suburb of Kiev where civilians were massacred. The American newspaper The New York Times received these recordings, which it then verified and translated.

The calls highlighted the grim reality that Russian soldiers were facing in the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, which began in late February. The New York Times report documented soldiers as they confessed to their mothers and girlfriends some of the atrocities they had seen and attended.

During a conversation with his girlfriend, a Russian soldier, identified only by his name, Sergey, said his commander had issued orders to send and execute Ukrainian civilians to the mountains.

They told us that there are many civilians around us and they ordered us to kill anyone we see”, Sergey said, The New York Times.

And why the hell would that be?

Because they can detect our locations. That's what we have to do”, it was Sergey saying. “Kill all civilians who pass by you and send to the mountains... I've already become a murderer, so I don't want to kill more people, especially those I have to look into the eyes of”.

According to the International Court, killing civilians is a war crime.

We seized them and stripped them and then searched their clothes and then a decision had to be made if they were to be released”, Serge said. If we let them go, they could detect our location... so we decided to kill them in the forest”.

When his girlfriend had asked him why they weren't being taken as prisoners, Serge had replied: “We would have to feed them and we didn't have enough food for ourselves either, you know?”, the Russian soldier answered.

On the other hand, American President Joe Biden had earlier accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing genocide in Ukraine. /Periscopi/