The statement was signed by the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights.
The Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights signed a joint statement on the massacre of prisoners of war in Ukraine on July 29 , 2022
in the village of Yelenovka in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region. This was reported by the SBU.
The statement says that during the explosion in the colony, a building was destroyed where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept: according to the Russians, more than 50 defenders of Ukraine were killed, the number of wounded is unknown, but not a single employee of the colony, a DPR militant or a Russian military guard area, according to the comments of the Russian side, was not harmed by the explosion.
After the explosion, Russia accused Ukraine of shelling a penal colony with American weapons and killing Ukrainian soldiers.
On this occasion, the SBU, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights said (the text is verbatim):
1. The explosion was a cynical terrorist act of the Russian Federation, a military provocation and a classic false flag operation, the purpose of which was to cover up war crimes, discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, disrupt the supply of Western weapons and increase social tension in Ukrainian society.
2. The Armed Forces of Ukraine exclusively struck Russian military facilities: warehouses with fuel, weapons and ammunition, command posts, military infrastructure facilities. The Ukrainian army has sufficient means to identify targets, including space reconnaissance systems. Ukraine did not conduct rocket and artillery shelling of the town. Novomoskovsk.
3. On May 16, through the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the process of evacuating the defenders of Mariupol from the territory of the Azovstal plant, which has been surrounded and attacked by Russian troops for a long time. time, started. The evacuation format was provided for the establishment of a regime of silence and the surrender of Ukrainian military prisoners, followed by an exchange under the guarantees of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. This format was chosen and approved by the defenders of Mariupol, who participated in the negotiations. On June 29, the first of the planned exchange of prisoners of war took place, as a result of which 144 defenders returned to Ukraine. Among them – 95 defenders of Azovstal.
4. The main condition of the chosen format is the obligation of the Russian side to international organizations to protect the life and health of Ukrainian defenders. This guarantee is cynically breached.
5. On the night of July 29, an organized killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war took place on the territory of the former correctional colony in the town of Yelenovka. A lot of documented evidence points to the planned nature of this crime and its commission by the Russian side: in particular, the deliberate transfer of fighters to a new building shortly before the explosion, an analysis of the nature of the damage and movement of explosion. wave, the interception of telephone conversations of militants, the lack of shelling in the indicated area, and so on. All this is without doubt: the Yelenovka explosion was a terrorist act by Russia and a gross violation of international agreements.
The signatories to the statement of demand (text verbatim):
1. On behalf of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, acting as guarantors of the life and health of Ukrainian prisoners of war, immediately respond to the terrorist act committed by the Russian Federation.
2. Immediately send representatives of the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights and representatives of the Joint Center for the search and release of prisoners on the territory of the colony in Yelenovka village in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region for the purpose of an inspection mission.
Remember, on July 29, “DPR” said that 47 people were killed in the shooting in the colony, 75 were injured, including eight guards.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out targeted deliberate shelling at the correctional facility in Yelenovka, and the statements about the alleged shelling from the Ukrainian side is an outright lie and a provocation.
The SBU published the “interception” about the “shelling” of Yelenovka
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Source: korrespondent
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