Experts have rejected Russian claims that the American MLRS may have been involved in the killing of Ukrainian prisoners.
Examining the video from the site of the terrorist attack in the Yelenovskaya colony, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, experts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) concluded that it could not be the consequence of a HIMARS. multiple rocket launcher strikes. This is stated in the organization’s new report, published on the evening of July 30.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukrainian troops deliberately attacked the Olenovsky pre-trial detention center, which houses Ukrainian prisoners of war, including servicemen of the Azov regiment, from Western HIMARS systems, killing at least of 40 and wounded 75 prisoners of war, recalled in ISW.
The Kremlin-backed news agency RIA Novosti released videos of the detention center showing fire damage, but not the kind that could have been hit by HIMARS.
Military experts also noted that Russian propaganda sources, although they published footage of HIMARS rocket fragments, did not provide evidence that fragments were found in Yelenovka.
Recall that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the UN and the Red Cross, as guarantors of the lives of Azov and other captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who responded to the brutal killing of Ukrainians in Yelenovka .
It was previously reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering the possibility of including Russia in the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
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Source: korrespondent
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