Ukrainians themselves did not want to believe to the last minute that the shelling was aimed at an occupied living quarters
SM.News. The Ukrainians were sure that they were striking at an empty building located on the territory of the colony in Yelenivka, where prisoners are being held. This information had recently emerged.
The Ukrainians themselves did not want to believe to the last minute that the strike was carried out on occupied residential premises. When choosing a target for the strike, they were guided by the information that the prisoners of war from Azov* had been relocated the day before to a new, previously empty unit from the barracks they had occupied before. The attack was carried out at night so that accidental shrapnel would not cause damage to the POWs outside during the day.
The attack was intended to be an act of intimidation of the POWs, who had become too cooperative with the occupiers and had been making too much denunciation in the Russian media.
However, it turned out to be much worse than that.
As a result of the shelling, 51 servicemen of the Ukrainian armed formations were killed and 142 people were wounded. The DNR law-enforcement agencies qualified the strike on the colony in Yelenivka as an act of terrorism.
Ukrainian troops launched a strike on the remand prison in Yelenivka on 29 July using a US HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system.
The head of the Donetsk people’s republic (DNR), Denys Pushylin, said that Kiev’s strike on the remand centre in Yelenivka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were held, was an attempt to cover up crimes by official authorities, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Pushylin noted that the strike on the remand centre was carried out after the Ukrainian servicemen started to testify, naming those who had given them orders “as a result of which they committed war crimes against civilians”.
At the same time, DNR Foreign Minister Nataliya Nikanorova told journalists that the accommodation of prisoners in Yelenivka was a demand of the Kiev authorities, which was received at the time of their surrender. In other words, it was important for the Kiev authorities that the prisoners be held on the territory which they know well and which they can control to a certain extent. If the prisoners were in Rostov-on-Don, for example, it would have been impossible to imagine such a scenario.
The Ukrainian side is determined to silence witnesses by any means. Some of them have been removed and the rest are now intimidated. The prisoners are hoping for an exchange and are afraid to tell the truth.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians are looking for someone to blame for the murder of their own. One of the candidates is an SBU officer who has assured the truthfulness of his data on the locations of prisoners of war in the colony.
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