Ukraine will bring to the level of the UN Security Council a discussion of the crime committed by the Russian invaders - the murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a colony in the village of Olenivka in the Donetsk region. And he will raise the issue of excluding Russia as an aggressor and terrorist country from the UN Security Council. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Office of the President Andrei Sibiga.

" The insidious murder of more than fifty Ukrainian prisoners of war, our defenders, as a result of a planned explosion in the colony of occupied Olenivka. And today we immediately brought this terrible criminal act of Russia to the highest global level - to the level of the UN Security Council" After all, this is a crime not only against Ukraine. This is a crime against the entire civilized world.. Against the UN charter. Against the Geneva Conventions. Against everything human,” Sibiga said on Facebook..

President Zelensky held an urgent meeting with the heads of all law enforcement agencies, after which they turned to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross with a demand to send their representatives, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights and representatives of the Joint Center for Search and Release of Prisoners to the territory of the colony in the village. Olenivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region for the inspection mission.

The signatories recalled that the key condition for the evacuation of the defenders of Mariupol from the territory of the Azovstal plant was the obligation of the Russian side to international organizations to preserve the life and health of Ukrainian defenders.

This guarantee was cynically violated.

The Attorney General's Office opened a case on h. 2 articles 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder. The Office of the President of Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the world community to respond to the Kremlin's daring actions. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny promised that the Ukrainians would avenge the dead.