Russian public television broadcast images on Friday presented as those of this prison, under the control of Donetsk separatists. The kyiv army denied being responsible for the attack.
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Did Ukraine kill 40 of its soldiers, prisoners of pro-Russian separatists, in a bombardment? This is what the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a press release on Friday July 29, without providing any proof. On the same day, kyiv denied carrying out the attack.
According to Moscow, shots from a Himars artillery system, supplied to Ukraine by the United States, hit a prison in Olenivka, in the Donetsk region, also injuring 75 people. The leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, reported on the Rossiya 24 channel a death toll of 47, while the separatist territorial defense forces mentioned 53 dead.
Russia claims to see this as a deliberate act by Ukraine: “This outrageous provocation is intended to scare Ukrainian soldiers and deter them from surrendering.” According to her, members of the Azov regiment detained since the fall of Mariupol are among the detainees. L’announcement Russian could not be independently verified late Friday morning. Russian public television broadcast images presented as those of the charred barracks, without showing any bodies.
For its part, the Ukrainian army denied on Friday having bombed this prison. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine, which fully adhere to the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, have never and do not carry out bombings of civilian infrastructure, especially in places where prisoners of war are likely to be detained”assured the army in a press release.
According to the governor of the Mykolaiv region, a Russian strike on a bus stop killed five people and injured seven on Friday in this southern city of the country near the occupied Kherson region.