UN prepared to investigate Olenivka shelling "all parties permitting"

ROMAN PETRENKO – SATURDAY, 30 JULY 2022, 17:30

The UN is prepared to send a group of experts to the PoW camp in the Russian-occupied village of Olenivka in Donetsk Oblast to investigate the circumstances of the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Source: Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, cited in RIA Novosti [RIA News], a Russian Kremlin-aligned news media outlet

Quote from Haq: "Regarding the recent tragedy that occurred at the prison in Olenivka: we are prepared to send a group of experts who can conduct an investigation, all parties permitting."

Earlier: 

• On the morning of 29 July, Russian-aligned propaganda media reported the shelling of a PoW camp in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, reporting that at least 53 prisoners were killed. The Ukrainian General Staff denied Russian accusations that the strike was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian Directorate of Intelligence believes that the killing of Ukrainian prisoners in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was organised by the Wagner Group [a Russian private military company - ed.] on the personal instructions of Yevgeny Prigozhin, without coordination with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
• The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) later disclosed intercepted telephone conversations in which Russian occupiers confirm that Russian troops were responsible for the explosion in the prison camp in Russian-occupied Olenivka, which killed at least 53 Ukrainian PoWs.
• Families of Ukrainian prisoners of war who had defended Azovstal are calling on the world to recognise Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

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