Russia will let the UN and the Red Cross to Olenivka when hiding traces of mass murder of Azov - Ombudsman

Video of the day "Probably this will happen after they take away evidence of a war crime. This is not happening now, ”he said. The Ombudsman recalled that, according to the Geneva Conventions, each side of the conflict should give access to prisoners of war and the Red Cross, give the opportunity to communicate with relatives with their relatives once a month and to allow lawyers. “This mechanism does not work. They are simply not allowed into the temporarily occupied territory, ”Lubin said.

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 torture over captives and executions carried out by orders of the occupation administration and command in the temporarily occupied territory. In the colony, the invaders were kept, including the defenders of Mariupol, including the fighters of the Azov Regiment.

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 were injured. The lists published by the aggressor country revealed differences.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin stated that, according to international experts, the cause of the explosion in the colony was a thermobaric weapon. On June 6, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there are more than 2. 5 thousand defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal plant in Russian captivity. According to the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper, 2449 defenders left the territory of Azovstal and were kept in occupied Olenivka.