INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An attack on a prisoner of war camp in eastern Ukraine last week killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war, including fighters from
happened at Correctional Colony No
twisted metal bunk beds.Moscow quickly said the prison was hit by Ukrainian rockets
Ukrainian prisoners were killed and 75 wounded
The ministry also said eight prison guards were injured.However, at about the same time, the separatist DNR authorities put the death toll
at 53, and said that no prison guards had been injured or killed.Russia finally released a full list of casualties Saturday, which stated
that a total of 50 Ukrainian PoWs were killed and 73 wounded.Who was killed?The Olenivka prisoners were Ukrainian soldiers and included
members of the Azov Regiment that was set up in 2015 and known for its far right links
characterized Azov fighters as Nazis and war criminals
On the same day as the Olenivka attack, the Russian embassy in the U.K
the way for captured Azov fighters to face lengthy jail terms.What do Moscow and pro-Russian separatists say happened?Russian officials have
repeatedly claimed that Ukrainian forces fired U.S.-supplied HIMARS rockets at the prison camp and deliberately killed its own prisoners of
moral responsibility for the massacre in Olenivka and other war crimes in Ukraine is directly borne by the [U.S
when the prisoners were sleeping
your leaders' cynicism?" Rudenko said in a Telegram post on Friday.Russian state media published a clip of fragments from a HIMARS missile
day, the Security Service of Ukraine put forward a slightly different version, citing what it said were intercepted radio conversations as
proof that the PoW deaths were likely caused by an explosion that originated inside the building.The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the
killings were carried out by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group, and that one of the motivations may have been to hide evidence of
it was suspicious no prison guards were injured.What was the Olenivka prison camp?The Olenivka prison camp is located near the
separatist-controlled city of Donetsk and has been used to house hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered after bitter fighting in
It is close to the front line, although the changing military situation means estimates of the exact distance vary from about 5 kilometers
Olenivka, which was used as an ordinary prison prior to the start of the Russian invasion
Open-source analyst Oliver Alexander highlighted videos from June that apparently show Ukrainian prisoners were not being housed in the
from the camp, said in a Saturday interview with The New York Times.At the same, state-controlled Russian media outlets have gone out of
their way to stress that conditions at the site are satisfactory
The Russian Defense Ministry-run channel Zvezda, released interviews over the weekend with three wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war, who
officials said Monday in an interview with Politico that Kyiv did not attack the Olenivka prison camp with HIMARS rocket launchers
They said no traces of the U.S.-supplied weapons were found at the site, Politico reported.The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations demanded an impartial probe into the incident and the treatment of
there were no reports that either the ICRC or UN had been present at the site of the attack.It was the ICRC that registered Ukrainian
combatants who surrendered to Russian forces in Mariupol in May
