Satellite images have emerged from the site of the killing of prisoners in Olenivka
ROMAN PETRENKO – SUNDAY, 31 JULY 2022, 13:50
Journalist and Politico correspondent Christopher Miller has released Maxar satellite photos showing the prison camp in occupied Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, before and after the killing of Ukrainian prisoners.
Source: Miller on Twitter; Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office on Twitter; InformNapalm
Quote from Miller: "New sat images of Olenivka prison in Russia-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine where at least 50 Ukrainian POWs were killed in an attack that Kyiv says – and preliminary evidence suggests – Russian forces carried out."
Details: The international intelligence community InformNapalm, after analysing the attack on the prisoners, concluded that it was not an attack from HIMARS-type MLRS or any other. They explain that as a result of the "missile strike" not a single brick flew out, the beds did not move an inch, etc.
They also wrote that the bodies would not have been burned after a rocket attack – they would not have been intact.
Instead, investigators believe that it was a thermobaric bomb, meaning they simply fired into the building from the windows, blocking all exits.
Podoliak is also certain that there was a thermobaric explosion from the inside.
Background:
- On 29 July, Russian propaganda media reported on the shelling of the prison camp in Olenivka, reporting at least 53 dead. The Ukrainian General Staff denied Russian accusations that the strike was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- The 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] on the personal instructions of Yevgeny Prigozhin, without coordination with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
- The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has intercepted telephone conversations in which Russian occupiers confirm that Russian troops were responsible for the explosion in the prison camp in occupied Olenivka, which killed at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners.
- Relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Azovstal are calling on the world to recognise Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
The UN is ready to send a group of experts to the prison camp in the village of Olenivka to investigate the circumstances of the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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