The occupiers still do not let the red cross into Olenivka, and there is no signal from the UN - Ombudsman

Lubinets reminded that he suggested, along with the Russian Ombudsman, to come to Olenivka, to visit the wounded servicemen and possibly start the procedure of humanitarian negotiations. He also suggested that the aggressor country gave international experts access to the tragedy. According to the Ombudsman, the Ukrainian side received a "signal" that Russia was "considering a request".

“Despite the statements of the Russian Federation that they allegedly gave access to the tragedy to the ICCH representatives and the UN mission, I received from the ICCh a response that they were not given access. So I came out with the initiative . . . ”he explained. The Ombudsman also added that his office received a signal from the occupiers that they are ready to return the bodies of the defenders of Ukraine "after the investigation.

" “I can inform you that we have communication with the ICRC. With the United Nations, we have a worse situation. Letters, I send queries. I did it on the first day, right after the tragedy. I did not receive some signal, even unofficial. I can confirm this publicly, ”Lubinets said. Earlier, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin stated that, according to international experts, the cause of an explosion in a colony in Occupied Olenivka was a thermal bar.

On July 29, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the Russian Federation struck a colony in the occupied Olenivka to accuse Ukraine of committing war crimes, as well as hide the torture over the captives and executions, which were carried out by orders of the occupation administration and command in the temporarily occupied territory. In the colony, the occupiers kept in particular the defenders of Mariupol, including the fighters of the Azov Regiment.

The UN and the Red Cross had to guarantee their safety. Russian propaganda media said at least 53 Ukrainian captive servicemen were killed. The next day, the Russian Defense Ministry published a list of 42 dead. Ukraine has stated that they have not yet received this data. According to the Attorney General's office, about 40 people were killed as a result of the Russian terrorist attack and injured.

GUR stated that the explosions in Olenivka were carried out by mercenaries of Wagner PVC (League) under the personal order of the nominal PEC owner Yevgeny Prigogine. According to GUR, explosions occurred in the area of ​​industrial zones in a newly built premises, which were specifically equipped for prisoners of war. Some of the defenders of Ukraine were transferred there two days ago.

The SBU has published an interception of a conversation confirming that the Russians committed a mass murder of prisoners of war in a colony in Olenivka. They added that, judging by the video from social networks, the windows completely survived the windows - this may indicate that the epicenter of the explosion was inside the destroyed building. According to the preliminary video analysis, traces on the walls were likely to remain after the "internal source" of the explosion.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that Russia must be recognized as a terrorist country. Zelensky said on June 6 that there are more than 2. 5 thousand defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal plant in Russian captivity. According to the newspaper, the Ukrainian Truth, 2449 defenders left the territory of Azovstal, kept in Occupied Olenivka. On June 29, Ukraine and Russia conducted a large -scale exchange of prisoners, during which 144 defenders of our country returned home.