>>514862186
It's essentially a high-tech version of ISIS execution videos. People engage in it because it's sadistic and they enjoy sadism, but the result of this is that everyone fighting wars is increasingly merciless and nobody takes prisoners anymore because any time they might have a chance to take someone alive, they just remember one of their friends begging for his life from the sky and trying to surrender and being mulched.
Since the Ukraine is ABSOLUTELY going to lose this war, and the Russians can simply point to these videos as proof of uniform war crimes being committed by the entire Ukranian military, it is likely that they will execute or starve to death the entire Ukranian military and all of its officers when they are eventually victorious. This was, of course, the plan--the US wants this to happen, because that will further galvanize their remaining proxies to fight harder against the Russians in any future engagement.