‘Weak': Bombshell video of Aussie POW
An unverified video has surfaced on social media purportedly showing Australian prisoner of war (POW) Oscar Jenkins alive in Russian custody two months after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.
The video shows Mr Jenkins being interviewed in a much softer manner than the infamous post-skirmish interrogation footage that shocked Australians late last year.
'My name is Oscar Jenkins, I am Australian,' Mr Jenkins says in the video.
A new video has surfaced purportedly showing Australian POW Oscar Jenkins alive in Russian custody two months after his capture in eastern Ukraine.
A man off screen – seemingly one of his captors – identified Mr Jenkins as a POW from Ukraine's 66th Mechanised Brigade.
NewsWire understands he was fighting as part of the brigade's 402nd Rifle Battalion when he was captured near Makiivka, a tiny village on the Zherebets River in Luhansk Oblast.
'Tell us about your health condition, about your mood. Are you OK?' the man asks Mr Jenkins.
'I would like more freedom,' Mr Jenkins replies.
'I feel a bit weak, I've lost a lot of weight, I have a broken arm still, I think, and my hand is not good.'
'But you are alive,' the man interjects.
'So the information about your death is not right?'
'Correct,' Mr Jenkins says.
The man says the video was taken on January 17.
NewsWire has not been able to independently verify where or when the video was taken.
Reverse image searches have shown the video was uploaded as early as February 8.
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