Zelensky accuses Russia of attacking a prison with Ukrainian prisoners and says it was “a planned crime”

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July 29 () –

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has accused the Russian Armed Forces of the attack on a prison in the town of Yelenovka, due to which at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners have died, and has asserted that it is a “planned crime” for Russia.

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

At this point, the Ukrainian president 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.

In this line, he has urged the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to express themselves regarding what happened. “The UN and the ICRC, which were supposed to guarantee the life and health of our prisoners of war, should react immediately,” he said.

Before him, the country’s foreign minister, Dimitro Kuleba, said on his Twitter profile that “Russia has committed another horrible war crime by attacking a correctional facility in the occupied city of Yelenovka, where it was holding prisoners of war. Ukrainians”.

Thus, he has called on all of Ukraine’s “partners” to “firmly condemn” what he considers a “brutal violation of Humanitarian Law” and to take the step of recognizing Russia as “a terrorist state.”

From the Russian side, the deputy head of the Military Administration of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Eduard Basurin, has also called the event “a war crime” but, according to him, perpetrated by Ukraine, whom he has accused of “killing to its own citizens.

The war in Ukraine broke out on February 24 after the invasion order signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days earlier had recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (east), the scene of an armed conflict since 2014.