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Aug. 3 () –
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, announced on Wednesday the launch of an investigation commission into the attack on the Elenovka prison, in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where more than 50 prisoners died.
According to Guterres, the United Nations received investigation requests from both Russia and Ukraine, as each has repeatedly accused the other of being responsible for the bombing.
“I do not have the authority to carry out criminal investigations, but I do have the authority to launch an investigation mission,” said Guterres, who stressed that the terms of the investigation are being finalized and, later, they will be communicated to Russia and Ukraine.
In this sense, he stressed that the UN is now immersed in the recruitment of “competent and independent people” who can participate in the investigation, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.
“We hope that both parties provide access to all facilities to obtain all the data that is necessary to establish the truth of what happened,” the highest representative of the United Nations has riveted.
On June 29, the town of Elenovka was the scene of an attack that reached a prison taken over by the Russian Armed Forces and in which more than a hundred Ukrainian soldiers were inmates.
Since then, both kyiv and Moscow have reproached each other for the attack, although this Wednesday the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, has gone a step further and has indicated that the bombing was not only carried out by the Army of the Ukraine, but it was carried out by means of a ‘HIMARS’ missile launcher system, supplied by the United States.
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