Strike on a colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka, Donetsk region, needs to be investigated, said British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons.

She stressed that this looks like part of the worst human rights violations and possible war crimes..

" This looks like part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of the worst human rights violations and possible war crimes being committed in occupied eastern Ukraine with impunity,” Simmons tweeted..

#Olenivka needs investigating. It looks like part of an increasingly worrying pattern of the worst kind of human rights abuses, and poss war crimes, being committed in the occupied East of? with impunity.

— Melinda Simmons (@MelSimmonsFCDO) July 30, 2022.

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Recall, on the night of July 29, the Russian invaders carried out targeted artillery shelling of the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka, as a result of which 53 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, 75 more were injured..

The Office of the Attorney General opened a case on. 2 Article 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.