Ukraine war: UN and Red Cross should investigate prison deaths, says Ukraine

[Rimmer]

Ukraine has called for the United Nations and the Red Cross to be allowed to investigate the deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in an attack in occupied territory.

The Red Cross said it is seeking access to the prison in order to help with evacuating and treating the wounded.

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of attacking the camp.

Unverified Russian video footage of the aftermath shows a tangle of wrecked bunk beds and badly charred bodies.

See more:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62356211

[Bkk Brian]

Just a few hours after the attack the Russian Embassy in the UK tweeted this direct quote from a video they are promoting:

 

#Azov militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they’re not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death.

 

The Russian Embassy in Britain reveals plans to hang Azov Battalion fighters: "Azov militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they’re not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death"

 

The tweet is still there if you head to the embassy twitter page but twitter have put this warning on it:

 

"This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible."

[onthedarkside]

Russia and Ukraine trade blame for a deadly attack on a POW prison

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured after the fall of Mariupol, the city where troops famously held out against a monthslong Russian siege.

 

Both sides said the assault was premeditated with the aim of covering up atrocities.

 

Russia claimed that Ukraine's military used U.S.-supplied rocket launchers to strike the prison in Olenivka, a settlement controlled by the Moscow-backed Donetsk People's Republic. Separatist authorities and Russian officials said the attack killed 53 Ukrainian POWs and wounded another 75.

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The Ukrainian military denied making any rocket or artillery strikes in Olenivka, and it accused the Russians of shelling the prison to cover up the alleged torture and execution of Ukrainians there. An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the shelling as "a deliberate, cynical, calculated mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners."

 

Neither claim could be independently verified.

 

(more)

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/30/1114691075/russia-ukraine-deadly-attack-prison

 

 

[Rimmer]

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[Bkk Brian]

On 7/30/2022 at 11:52 AM, Rimmer said:

Ukraine has called for the United Nations and the Red Cross

Unlikely:

https://twitter.com/ICRC_ua/status/1553401834802388994