Death of Ukrainian military in colony: Kyiv “will ensure fair punishment”

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Saturday published lists of surnames of Ukrainian prisoners of war, who are allegedly wounded as a result of a missile impact on the Volnovakh correctional colony No. 120 in the village of Elenovka in the Donetsk region.

Deutsche Welle reports that 48 people whose names are named; “Two died on the way to the hospital,” their personalities are established, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. The list of wounded 73 surnames. According to the Russian defense department, at the time of the blow in the colony were 193 prisoners of war of the Ukrainian.

In turn, Ukraine began the procedure for returning the bodies of prisoners of war who died in Elena. According to Dmitry Lubinets, authorized by the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights, he turned to the International Red Cross and the UN monitoring mission, so that he, as the Ukrainian Ombudsman, would be given the opportunity to come to the colony and visit the wounded prisoners of Ukrainians.

The Coordination Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war at the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that the Russian Federation should provide lists of the dead and wounded in the colony in Elena of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The Azov regiment regarded what happened in Elena as an act of public execution, which Russia made due to impunity. This was stated by Major Nikita Nadtochiy, temporarily acting commander of Azov. “We are already finding out the names of the performers and organizers of the execution of our prisoners. We have preliminary information, but so far we are ready to voice it. We will find them wherever they are … Ukraine as a state will ensure a fair punishment,” he emphasized in a video message .