Representatives of the 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 Russian terrorist attack in the temporarily occupied Olenivka.
More than 50 people died and 130 were injured as a result of a strike on a local colony where captured Ukrainian soldiers, including the defenders of Mariupol and civilians, were held..
“We demand that the UN and the ICRC, acting as guarantors of the life and health of Ukrainian prisoners of war, immediately 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 the Donetsk region for the inspection mission,” the joint statement says..
In addition, the document notes that this explosion is a cynical terrorist act, a classic “false flag operation”, the purpose of which is to cover up war crimes, discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, disrupt the supply of Western weapons and increase social tension in society..
“The Ukrainian military strikes exclusively at Russian military facilities and have enough means to identify targets. Ukraine did not carry out rocket and artillery shelling of the Olenivka village,” the statement says..
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 has been cynically violated.
The Ukrainian side has evidence that the strike was planned and deliberate, security officials say. This includes the deliberate transfer of fighters to a new room shortly before the explosion, and an analysis of the nature of the damage and the movement of the blast wave, and the interception of telephone conversations of the fighters, and the absence of shelling in the indicated place.
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Recall that on the night of July 29, Russian troops destroyed the barracks of the colony in Olenivka in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region. 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.
At first, artillery shelling was called the cause of the destruction, but later information appeared that the explosion was from inside.
The Main Intelligence Directorate published information that the terrorist attack was carried out by mercenaries of the PMC "
The Attorney General's Office opened a case on. 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.