"There may be several options." Why the Russians fired a correctional facility in Olenivka - Zhdanov
“This is another way of political pressure on the leadership of Ukraine - the destruction of our captives [because of] the unwillingness to exchange them by the conditions that the Russian Federation puts us today. There may be several options. The second option - it could be the burial of the traces of torture and the execution of our captives. We do not know 100 percent whether they were alive at the time of the explosion, ”Zhdanov said.
However, the first version for him is more convincing: "Demonstration before Ukraine, what they can do with our prisoners, anything, until Ukraine agree to Russia's political conditions.
" In the General Staff, the Armed Forces stated that the occupiers pursued their criminal goals - to accuse Ukraine of committing "war crimes", as well as to hide the torture over prisoners and executions, which were carried out there by orders of the occupation administration and command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The consequences of the shelling are clarified, but it is previously known about the death of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war. In Olenovka there is a colony No.
120, where the troops of the Russian Federation are held captive by Ukrainian defenders, including the soldiers of the Azov Regiment. After the shelling, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on international partners to strongly condemn this gross violation of international humanitarian law and recognize Russia with a terrorist state.