The Ukrainian military attacked the facility “to hide crimes” the inmates could expose, the republic’s military has claimed
Kiev knew exactly where Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held when it ordered a strike on the detention facility in Donbass, Eduard Basurin, the spokesman for the army of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), claimed.
The attack on the prison near the village of Yelenovka on Friday morning claimed the lives of 53 people, with 75 more injured, according to the DPR. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the facility had held members of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, whose fighters surrendered to Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol. The battalion is notorious for having fighters with nationalist and neo-Nazi views.
“I would like to note that Ukraine itself determined the place of detention of prisoners of war, so they knew exactly where they were kept and in what place,” Basurin told journalists without elaborating.
The DPR’s ombudswoman, Darya Morozova, explained that Ukrainian authorities had previously insisted Yelenovka’s facility be a detention center for Ukrainian prisoners of war.
“It was discussed, it was their proposal. That is, they knew perfectly well where the prisoners were being held, at their own request. That's how cynically they took the lives of 50 of their own officers and soldiers,” she told Izvestia newspaper.
In Basurin's opinion, the prison was targeted “after the Ukrainian prisoners of war began to talk about the crimes that they had committed on the orders of their commanders.” As the orders to conduct those crimes, according to Basurin, had been issued by Kiev, the Ukrainian “political leadership” ordered the strike on the detention center using US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers “to hide those crimes about which Ukrainian prisoners of war began to speak.”
“I would like to note that even the lack of ammunition did not stop them from shutting the mouths of those Ukrainian prisoners of war who began to tell how they killed, where they killed and why they killed the civilian population,” Basurin said.
He echoed the earlier remarks by DPR head Denis Pushilin, who claimed that the Ukrainians “deliberately” targeted the detention center in order to kill Azov members who had been providing accounts of possible war crimes committed by their commanders.
Kiev has categorically denied these allegations and accused “the Russian occupants” of carrying out the strike. According to a statement by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook, Russia’s aim was to accuse Ukraine of committing ‘war crimes’.
Russia claims Ukraine had a reason to kill its own POWs
At least 53 people died in a strike on a detention center in Donbass
Kiev’s forces shelled a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs early Friday morning to “threaten” their own troops who may want to surrender, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed.
“A large number of Ukrainian servicemen are voluntarily laying down their arms, and know about the humane treatment of prisoners by the Russian side,” the ministry said, calling the attack “outrageous.”
Authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said that the death toll in the missile strike has grown to 53, while 75 were wounded.
DPR Deputy Information Minister Daniil Bezsonov posted a graphic video on his Telegram channel, which shows multiple mutilated and charred bodies inside the destroyed building.
According to Russia’s Defense Ministry and local authorities, Ukrainian troops used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to strike the detention center near the village of Yelenovka.
The ministry said the facility held members of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, whose fighters surrendered to Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol. The battalion is notorious because it includes fighters with nationalist and neo-Nazi views.
Speaking to Russia’s TV Channel One, DPR head Denis Pushilin claimed that the Ukrainians “deliberately” targeted the detention center in order to kill Azov members who had been providing testimonies about possible war crimes by their commanders.
The Ukrainian military released a statement on Friday, accusing Russian troops of shelling Yelenovka. Moscow destroyed the prison in order to pin the blame on Kiev, as well as to “hide the torture of prisoners and executions," the statement alleged.
ドンバスの拘置所への攻撃で少なくとも53人が死亡
ロシア国防省は、キエフ軍が金曜日の早朝、降伏を望むかもしれない自国の軍隊を「脅す」ために、ウクライナの捕虜を収容している収容所を砲撃したと主張した。
「多数のウクライナ軍人が自発的に武器を捨てており、ロシア側による捕虜の人道的な扱いを知っている」と同省は述べ、この攻撃を「言語道断」とした。
ドネツク人民共和国(DPR)当局によると、ミサイル攻撃による死者は53人、負傷者は75人に上ったという。
DPRのダニール・ベズソノフ情報副大臣は自身のテレグラムチャンネルに、破壊された建物内で複数の切断され炭化した遺体を映した生々しい動画を投稿している。
ロシア国防省と地元当局によると、ウクライナ軍は米国が提供したHIMARS多連装ロケットランチャーを使用し、イエレノフカ村近くの収容施設を攻撃した。
同省によると、この施設にはウクライナのアゾフ大隊のメンバーが収容されており、その戦闘員はマリウポルのアゾフスタル製鉄所の包囲中にロシアとドンバス軍に降伏したという。同大隊は、民族主義やネオナチの考えを持つ戦闘員を含むため、悪名高い。
ロシアのTVチャンネル・ワンの取材に対し、住民民主共和国代表のデニス・プシーリンは、指揮官による戦争犯罪の可能性について証言していたアゾフのメンバーを殺害するため、ウクライナ軍が「意図的に」収容所を標的にしたと主張した。
ウクライナ軍は金曜日に声明を発表し、ロシア軍がイエレノフカを砲撃したと非難した。モスクワは、キエフに責任を負わせ、また「囚人の拷問と処刑を隠す」ために刑務所を破壊したと、声明は主張している。
・・・ハイマースは、米国・NATOの操作習熟者が操作しているとされます。エレノフカ刑務所には米国人もいるはずですが、彼らをもまとめて殺害です。米国はこういうことをやります。
— MFA Russia
️@mod_russia: US-made HIMARS MLRS struck a detention centre near Elenovka, where Ukrainian servicemen, including Azov Battalion Neo-Nazis, are being held.
️This provocation is designed to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen, prevent their surrender.
https://t.co/u4BeXs7Utg pic.twitter.com/UpZU6PfA8h(@mfa_russia) July 29, 2022
メディアは毎日、アゾフスタリ製鉄所のナチス・アゾフにインタビューし心配していた?
— mko (@trappedsoldier) July 29, 2022
彼らが捕虜となり収容されていたエレノフカ刑務所を、ゼレンスキーの軍がハイマースで攻撃。40人が殺害され、140人が負傷した。
ゼレンスキーの自国民に対する戦争犯罪!https://t.co/sK97DGEGyM pic.twitter.com/KQGSf3n7Go
➊ゼレンスキーは大間違いした
— 知足隠遁(KATO) (@SukiyakiSong) July 30, 2022
➋ネオナチのアゾフ大隊兵士2300人が露軍の捕虜に
➌捕虜=ウ軍幹部からの戦争犯罪命令を大量に自白
➍ゼレンスキー=米供与長距離ロケット砲で口封じ
➎捕虜=虐殺されたのは53人で、2250人残っており、洗いざらいの戦争犯罪命令を自白するだろう https://t.co/KpI3OO6YlT
ラブロフは、ウクライナのすべての行動は米国によってコントロールされていると述べた。
— mko (@trappedsoldier) July 29, 2022
エレノフカ刑務所攻撃も? もちろん! https://t.co/bb9lq1hMV8
— miiko (@miiko16196406) August 8, 2022
ウクライナ軍アゾフ連隊の報道官(現在は捕虜)は、ゼレンスキー大統領府が、ロシア兵捕虜の拷問と殺害を明確に奨励したことを明らかにしました。
また、ロシア兵捕虜の目をえぐり、去勢し、メディアキャンペーン用に撮影するよう高度な命令を受けたことも明かしました。pic.twitter.com/TewRTR308W