A Russian soldier has confessed to shooting civilians and looting valuables in the barbaric invasion of Ukraine.
Daniil Frolkin, 21, revealed how his own commanders told him to engage in the slaughter of Ukrainians.
The young soldier described how he was ordered to "walk them out, shoot them, destroy their phones and their documents".
Frolkin spent five months fighting in the war and explained how he and his fellow troops were told they were fighting an evil regime and they are "trying to liberate civilians from fascism".
Russian leader Vladimir Putin falsely claims the war in Ukraine is merely a "special operation" designed to dismantle a Nazi threat on their border.
The Ukrainian government is not Nazi and Frolkin explained the only people they founded tended to be older villagers.
He said to iStories media: "But we kill civilians. What's the point of continuing this war?
"My commanders told me: ‘Those are the ones to be shot’. So I went and shot them. The order was given by Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Prokurat.
"These men were brought in, and he said: ‘Take them somewhere, and shoot them’."
Prokurat, Frolkin claims, stole a large pack of cash the group had on them and his unit committed the actions in the village of Andriivka.
It is reported the village lost 40 of its 1,000 residents during the Russian occupation present there until April earlier this year.
iStories contacted Frolkin along with Dmitriy Danilov, Ruslan Glotov and Ivan Shepelenko of the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, according to the Moscow Times.
Frolkin denied everything at first, before ringing back to confess to journalists.
The Siberian added: "I…Frolkin Daniil Andreevich, confess to all the crimes that I committed in Andriivka. [I confess] to shooting civilians, robbing civilians, confiscating their phones and [confess] that our command does not give a f*** about our fighters, about the entirety of the infantry that fights on the front line."
Harrowing, Frolkin described the murder of a man believed to be 47-year-old Ruslan Yaremchuk.
Yaremchuk, it is claimed, supplied his country's forces with the whereabouts of Russian positions before he was eventually caught and killed by Frolkin.
Frolkin's unit blamed him for 18 of their men wounded including one who had his testicles hit by shrapnel.
"He was begging us ‘Guys give me a machine gun please, I’ll shoot myself, I don’t want to go back to my wife like this’. I told [the informer]: ‘On your knees.’
"And just a bullet in the forehead. I was shaking for a very long time. I understood if I kill one more, I kill myself. I couldn't take one more life on my conscience.
“I killed one, but I wanted to save as much as possible. I want to save my guys.”
The soldier is now back in Russia despite the admissions and could now face serious jail time.
Laws enshrined by Putin after the war in Ukraine broke out mean people can get up to 15 years in jail for spreading 'fake' information.
He added: "[I will be jailed] not for what I did in Ukraine, but for all the information I will give you.
"I just want to confess to everything and explain what is happening in our country. I think that it would be better if the war never started."
