Prosecutor General's Office still does not understand motives of Russian terrorist attack on Olenivka
Taras Semkiv, deputy head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office, has said that a year later, the investigation still cannot understand the motives behind the terrorist attack that led to the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the territory of the colony in occupied Olenivka in July 2022.
Source: Semkiv on air with Radio Svoboda (Liberty)
Quote from Semkiv: "Unfortunately, we cannot understand the motives behind this.
It is obvious that this is a war crime. The Russian Federation is cynically violating international humanitarian law.
It is obliged to provide appropriate protection to prisoners of war, such as the people who were held in Olenivka, but this was not done, so it is difficult to talk about the motives behind their actions: whether it was hatred for our military for resisting armed aggression or some personal motives.
But it is obvious that a war crime was committed, no one has any doubts about that."
Details: The Office of the Prosecutor General still does not have data on the exact number of people killed and injured in Olenivka, as Ukraine has not yet had access to the area to investigate.
Background:
- On 29 July, Russian media reported the attack on a colony in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, where Ukrainian prisoners were being held. Propagandists claimed that at least 53 people were killed.
- Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces denied Russia's allegations that the attack was carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The General Staff said the Russians tried to hide the torture and murder of prisoners.
- The intelligence service believes that the killing of Ukrainian prisoners in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was organised by the Wagner Group on the personal instructions of Yevgeny Prigozhin, without the approval of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
- The Security Service of Ukraine intercepted telephone conversations in which the occupiers confirmed that it was Russian troops who were responsible for the explosion in the colony of occupied Olenivka, which killed at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners.
- Azov units announced a manhunt for those involved in the killing of prisoners of war in Olenivka.
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