UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced that the United Nations will launch a "fact-finding mission" of the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the colony in the temporarily occupied Olenivka, Donetsk oblast.
This is reported by Reuters.
Guterres told reporters that Ukraine and Russia had demanded an investigation. According to him, the terms of reference for the mission are currently being prepared, which requires the consent of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
- On May 16, with the mediation of 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 began. And it was to these organizations that Russia gave a guarantee that it would preserve the lives of the prisoners.
- On the night of July 29, explosions rang out in the colony in the occupied city of Olenivka, Donetsk region, where the Russians kept Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Russians said that it was the ZSU that was hit with HIMARS. However, the General Staff of Ukraine stated that the pre-trial detention center was shelled by the Russians themselves with artillery in order to accuse Ukraine of "war crimes" and to cover up the torture of prisoners and executions. More than 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed by shelling, and 130 were wounded.
- The explosions took place on the territory of the industrial zone in a newly built building that was supposed to be specially equipped to hold prisoners who had been taken out of Azovstal. The building was completed on July 27, after which some of the captured Ukrainian defenders were transferred to it. The Security Service of Ukraine intercepted telephone conversations in which the occupiers confirm that Russian troops are responsible for the shelling of the pre-trial detention center. Ukrainian military intelligence said that the explosion was carried out by the mercenaries of PMC Wagner on the instructions of the owner of PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, "Putinʼs cook". They did not coordinate the organization and actual terrorist attack with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
- On July 30, the Ministry of Defense of Russia published a list of Ukrainian prisoners of war who allegedly died as a result of a terrorist attack in a colony in the occupied Olenivka of the Donetsk region. The list includes 48 dead, the identities of two are being established because they allegedly died on the way to the hospital. There are 73 names on the list of the wounded.
- On August 1, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets reported that he had not yet received any signal from the UN regarding the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka. Relatives of prisoners of war from the "Azov" regiment, in turn, declared the complete inaction of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the matter of Ukrainian prisoners from "Azovstal".