Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on the world community to condemn the aggressive violation of international law by the Russian Federation and immediately recognize Russia as a terrorist state after the shelling of a correctional facility in the occupied Olenivka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept.

" All violations of international law will be duly recorded and documented and will become the basis for appropriate investigations and prosecutions of their perpetrators. According to the Rome Statute, such actions can also be qualified as crimes against humanity,"

It is emphasized that the brutal war crimes committed by the military of the Russian Federation against Ukrainian prisoners of war, in particular, the terrible cases of torture, physical abuse, inhuman treatment, the willful infliction of grievous suffering and serious bodily harm and the willful killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war are serious violations of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine assured that, together with other involved agencies, it will continue to make efforts to bring Russian war criminals to the strictest accountability..

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As reported, the strike on the colony in the occupied Olenivka led to the death of 40 and wounding of 130 Ukrainians, including captured military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilians..

Russian propagandists tried to blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the murder of Ukrainians, but the General Staff of the Ukrainian forces noted that there were no rocket and artillery strikes in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Olenivka. The goal of the Russian occupiers is an attempt to hide the murders and torture of the Ukrainian military.

The president's office, in turn, noted that by such actions the Russian side is trying to disrupt agreements on the exchange of prisoners who surrendered to Azovstal under certain guarantees.