The UN mission to investigate the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Yelenovka colony was decided to be disbanded due to a lack of security guarantees.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ordered the disbandment of the UN mission created to investigate the circumstances of the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Yelenovka colony, Reuters reported on Thursday, January 5. The decision was made due to the lack of of the necessary guarantees for the safety of mission participants and “the conditions necessary for the deployment of the mission on the ground,” explained UN representative Stéphane Dujarric.
Such a “difficult, sensitive and dangerous mission” in an active war zone requires “clear guarantees of security and access from both sides,” he said. “We didn’t feel like we got them,” Dujarric said, without specifying which side’s guarantees he was talking about.
“We can only hope that the necessary conditions will appear in the future, and we are, of course, ready to rebuild the team as soon as we feel that we have proper security guarantees,” the UN representative insisted.
The explosion in Yelenovka claimed the lives of 53 people
At the end of July last year, an explosion occurred in one of the barracks of the former correctional colony No. 120 in the village of Yelenovka, located in the territory of the self-proclaimed “DNR”. At that moment, Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept in the colony. The explosion killed 53 people and injured 73 others.
Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the explosion. Moscow says the prisoners died as a result of a Ukrainian missile strike from the American HIMARS Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). Kyiv categorically denied this and believed that the explosion occurred inside the colony as a result of the use of a thermobaric weapon – a bullet that sprayed an aerosol into the air, which then ignited and exploded.
American broadcaster CNN published the results of its own investigation in August. Experts who interviewed him, after studying the available video footage and photographs from Yelenovka before and after the attack, said that the Russian version of events was probably invented, and the possibility that the building was hit by a HIMARS missile is almost excluded.
Source: DW
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out a targeted deliberate shelling of the correctional institution in Yelenovka, and the statements about the alleged shelling from the Ukrainian side are a outright lies and a provocation.
The UN explained why they did not go to Yelenovka
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