President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held an urgent meeting on the terrorist attack in Olenivka.

“I held a meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov, and. head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk and Ukrainian parliamentary commissioner for human rights Dmitry Lubinets. Discussed in detail the terrorist attack organized by Russian monsters in Olenovka. There is enough evidence that this was a planned crime.. And this is another confirmation that Russia is a terrorist state,” Zelensky said..

He stressed that the UN and the ICRC, which must guarantee the preservation of the life and health of our prisoners of war, must immediately respond.

Earlier, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross filed a request for access to the colony in the temporarily occupied Olenivka, Donetsk region.

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.

Representatives of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights appealed to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross with a demand to respond to the terrorist attack.