Ukraine on Saturday (July 30th) denounced Russian calls to "
hang
" or inflict another "
humiliating death
" on fighters from the Ukrainian Azov regiment the day after a strike on a prison where some of them were being held that did more of 50 dead.
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Read this when they tell you that Russia should not be isolated.
There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops doing so at Olenivka.
They are all complicit in these war crimes and must be held accountable
,” Ukrainian foreign affairs spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on Twitter.
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He was reacting to a tweet posted on Friday evening in English from the Russian Embassy in the UK which was flagged as '
breaking Twitter's rules on hateful conduct
', but remains available as '
of public interest
' .
.
“
Azov fighters deserve to be executed, but not by firing squad, by hanging.
They are not real soldiers.
They deserve a humiliating death
,” the tweet read.
“
Russia is a terrorist state.
In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can say at the diplomatic level that people deserve to be executed by hanging
”, for his part reacted on Telegram Andrii Iermak, the chief of staff of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
'Deliberate war crime'
The Ukrainian president on Friday evening described as a "
deliberate Russian war crime
" the Friday bombardment of a prison in Olenivka, in the Donetsk region, in the occupied territory in eastern Ukraine.
Initially, it was Moscow that implicated Kiev, the Russian investigative committee having accused the Ukrainian forces of having “
fired on the prison where the members of the Azov regiment are being held, using American projectiles from the system Himars
” (multiple rocket launchers).
The Azov regiment distinguished itself in the defense of Mariupol, a strategic port in southeastern Ukraine.
After long weeks of siege and resistance at the Azovstal steelworks, some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to the Russian army in May.
Ukrainian human rights official Dmytro Lubinetsk announced on Saturday that he had asked the Red Cross, which had supervised the withdrawal of defenders from Azovstal, to have access to Olenivka.
According to him, the ICRC has “
for the moment
” not obtained authorization from the Russians.
"
Currently we can only analyze the video we have.
First, this barracks was built separately - for us this is an indicator that this was a premeditated Russian military operation.
According to the preliminary data, we assume that the explosion occurred indoors
”.
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According to him, this version is confirmed by the fact that “
the nearby barracks were not damaged, even the windows were not broken.
Likewise, 'by a miracle', the Russian soldiers were not injured
,” he continued.
British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons called for "
an investigation
" into what happened in Olenivka.