The Russian Ministry of Defense announced an alleged strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the pre-trial detention center in Olenivka in the Russian-controlled territory of Donbass, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept. According to the Russians, forty captured Ukrainians died, another 75 were injured.

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The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, described the event as “a blatant provocation aimed at intimidating Ukrainian servicemen and preventing their surrender”.

At the same time, a source of the Ukrayinska Pravda publication in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that they had recorded strikes on Yelenovka from the side of the basing of Russian troops.

Another interlocutor said that the other day Ukrainian prisoners were transferred to the industrial zone, to this very barrack, which was attacked on July 29.

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Recall that there is colony No. 120 in Olenivka, where, in particular, Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, taken prisoner in Mariupol as a result of a special operation agreed upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian military surrendered in accordance with the order of the command and were to be exchanged, however, the Russian side is delaying the transfer of the Ukrainian military and claims demonstrative " There is also evidence of torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war.