On Saturday, July 30, Ukraine condemned Russia’s calls “to hangor cause to anothera humiliating deaththe day after Ukrainian Azov regiment fighters went on strike against the prison where some of them were detained, resulting in the deaths of more than 50 people.
“Read this when they say that Russia should not be isolated. There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for the execution of Ukrainian POWs and Russian troops doing so at Olenivka. They are all complicit in these war crimes and must be held accountable.“Oleg Nikolenko, the spokesman of the Ukrainian diplomacy, wrote on Twitter:
He was responding to an English-language tweet from the Russian Embassy in the UK on Friday evening, which was listed as “violates Twitter’s hateful conduct policy“but still available because it can”generate interest for the public“. “Azov fighters deserve the death penalty, but not by firearms, by hanging. They are not real soldiers. They deserve an ignominious death“, we can read in this tweet.
“Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can diplomatically say that people deserve the death penalty.In turn, Andrey Iermak, chief of staff of President Volodymyr Zelensky, responded on Telegram.
“Deliberate war crime”.
On Friday evening, the President of Ukraine called “deliberate Russian war crimeOn Friday, the bombing of Olenivka prison in the Donetsk region of the occupied eastern territory of Ukraine.
At first, it was Moscow that blamed Kiev, the Russian Investigative Committee blamed the Ukrainian forces.shot at the prison where the members of the Azov regiment are kept, using the American projectiles of the “Himars” system;(multiple rocket launchers).
The Azov regiment distinguished itself in the defense of the strategic port of Mariupol in the southeast of Ukraine. After weeks of siege and resistance at the Azovstal steel plant, some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to the Russian army in May. Ukrainian human rights defender Dmytro Lubinetsk announced on Saturday that he had asked the Red Cross, which was overseeing the withdrawal of defenders from Azovstal, to gain access to Olenivka. According to him, ICRC has “for the momentdid not receive permission from the Russians. “Currently we can only analyze the video we have. First, this barracks was built separately. for us, this is an indicator that this was a deliberate Russian military operation. According to preliminary data, we assume that the explosion took place inside“.
According to him, this hypothesis is confirmed by the fact that “the nearby barracks were not damaged, not even the windows were broken. Similarly, “miraculously” the Russian soldiers were not injured“, he continued. British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons called “investigationAbout what happened in Olenivka.
Source: Le Figaro
