The Ukrainian side has carefully investigated the prerequisites, motives and consequences of the terrorist act, and also has information about the defendants in the war crime.
The Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war initiated the resumption of the investigation of the terrorist attack in Yelenovka at the international level. This was reported in the telegram channel of the headquarters on August 5.
It is noted that the members of the headquarters met with representatives of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry into Violations in Ukraine and discussed the terrorist attack committed by Russia in Yelenovka, as a result of which dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and injured.
Representatives of the Coordination Headquarters made a presentation with research on the facts about the prerequisites, motives and consequences of a terrorist act, as well as those involved in a war crime.
“The authors of the presentation – the Regional Center for Human Rights, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights, the Media Initiative for Human Rights and the Olenovka Family Community NGO – hope for an adequate response from the UN Commission and the entire international community, and in particular for the resumption of the investigation of the terrorist act at the international level After all, the terrorist attack in Yelenovka continued the numerous war crimes of the Russian Federation and its violations of the Geneva Conventions,” the Headquarters said in a statement.
Terrorist attack in Yelenovka
On July 29, in the correctional colony of Yelenovka, Donetsk region, where prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were kept, there was a powerful explosion, after which a fire broke out. It was reported about 40 dead and 75 wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war. Later, the head of the so-called. “DPR” Denis Pushilin reported that the death toll during the strike on the detention center in Yelenovka had risen to 47.
The Ukrainian side accused Russia of committing a terrorist act, in connection with which the UN announced plans to create a special group to investigate the circumstances of the incident.
On August 15, it became known that employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the prisoner of war camp in Yelenovka twice. They were unable to talk to the Ukrainian prisoners of war in private.
Western experts and criminologists have come to the conclusion that Russia’s version of the shelling of the colony in Yelenovka from the HIMARS MLRS is fictitious. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin accused the Russian Armed Forces of using thermobaric weapons on the territory of the colony in Yelenovka.
I also spoke about the use of thermobaric weapons in Yelenovka. O. Commander of the Azov Regiment Nikita Nadtochiy. According to the major of the Nagtsvardia, the Russian invaders used the Bumblebee rocket-propelled flamethrower to kill prisoners of war.
Also Focus in his article, he analyzed in detail who is to blame for the murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka and how the “Wagnerites” could be involved in organizing the terrorist attack.
