Borrell regrets an attack on a prison in Donetsk and calls the alleged video of a castration “appalling”

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July 29 () –

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has lamented an attack on a prison in Donetsk, in the town of Elenovka, which has claimed the lives of more than 50 people, and has branded the alleged video of a castration of a Ukrainian soldier is appalling.

“The European Union condemns in the strongest terms the atrocities committed by the Russian Armed Forces and their representatives. These barbaric and inhumane acts represent serious violations of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocol and constitute war crimes,” he stressed in a statement. release.

Likewise, he has also described as “appalling” the alleged video that has circulated on social networks, as well as on “pro-Kremlin channels”, of a Ukrainian military man castrated by Russian forces during his captivity.

Amnesty International has also echoed this action. The British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ has collected speculation, by no means confirmed, that the alleged Russian soldier responsible for the mutilation served with a Chechen formation known as the Ajat battalion and had fought at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk.

In her reaction to the footage, Amnesty’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director Marie Struthers describes a “gruesome assault” that “seems to be yet another example of the Russian forces’ utter disregard for the dignity and human life in Ukraine”.

Regarding the attack on the prison, although Moscow initially accused kyiv of having carried it out, Ukraine later responded with the opposite version, pointing to the Russian forces as responsible for an incident that they have classified as a crime of war.

At this point, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has held a meeting with senior officials from the Ukrainian Army, Defense and Intelligence to discuss “in detail” what he considers a “terrorist attack organized by Russian inhuman monsters.”

“There is enough evidence that it was a planned crime. And this is another confirmation that Russia is a terrorist state,” the Ukrainian president stressed in a post on his Telegram social network channel.

The authorities of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, for their part, have assured that the attack would have been carried out with a HIMARS -a multiple launch rocket system- and have specified that “the criminal regime in kyiv deliberately destroys to Ukrainian militiamen who have surrendered to hide traces of war crimes committed against the civilian population of Donbas”.

On the other hand, the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, has argued that “the scale and speed of the information campaign by Russian propagandists indicate that it was a planned and organized action.”

“This is a classic, cynical and elaborate false flag operation”, he pointed out, before accusing the Russian forces of “hiding evidence of the scale of Russia’s war crimes and torture”, “affecting agreements for the exchange (of prisoners)” and “discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine”.