Olena crime. As the Russians could kill several dozen captives of "Azov"
Military Focus on Facebook Colony in Olenivka is a correctional institution №120 of Volnovakha district of Donetsk region. It can hold about a thousand people at the same time. According to the human rights organization media initiative for human rights, detained (which is prisoners of war, in particular, servicemen of the 36th Marine Corps, Azov Regiment fighters, border guards from Mariupol, as well as civilians who could not take place) in two -storey barracks, which are located nearby.
There are only six of them: five men's and one female. There is also a disciplinary detention center, dining room, church, club, administrative buildings in the colony. Each of the barracks can have about 150 people. There is an area near the barracks to which they can be revented. But, according to the Witness's worked organization, none of the buildings known to him look like the one shown in the video of the Russians.
"I can only say that the fence on one of the frames on the video is similar to the one that was in Olenivka," - specifies the former prisoner. Guglcard shows that the territory of the colony is divided into two conventional parts. On the left is just where the barracks and the administration are located, to the right are buildings that were not used. Focus sources say that a few days before July 28, about two hundred Azov regiment fighters were moved in the colony.
The same information is confirmed by the sources of Ukrainian Truth journalists in the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense: "They were indeed placed not in one of the barracks described, but in a separate - in the territory of the industrial zone. No one was kept there before. " "When I was in Olenovka, and it was about April-May, then they were driven to the trash-this is the area opposite the longest building. At that moment I did not see anyone there.
I think there was no one. Capital structures, and if you look at the video that is now published from Olenivka, you can see not only a hole in the roof, but also slate - that is, there was actually no roof, " - says the former prisoner of Olenivka Focus. He also knows from his sources that a part of the prisoners was deliberately transferred to the building on the "Promka". Later, another video was published in the Russian telegrams.
It has a white building with windows under the roof and a blue gate, which indicates, the probable number of withheld - 193 people, inside - mutilated two -storey bunks and burned bodies. Now it is impossible to accurately determine the circumstances of the fire that occurred then. Both the Russian side and the Ukrainian are talking about the probable shelling.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation states that "the blow to Olenivka struck Ukrainian military with HIMARS": "They aimed at barracks, where captives of Ukrainian military who began to cooperate with the investigation. " The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says that Ukrainian military missile and artillery strikes in the area of Olenivka settlement were not inflicted, this Russian army carried out a "aiming artillery firing of a correctional institution".
In addition, from time to time it becomes known that the Russians in order to provokes the occupied territories of Donetsk region themselves, and then try to accuse Ukraine. This was the case in June, when the Russians declared shelling of a maternity hospital in Donetsk. Instead, testimony from the scene of even Russian journalists suggests that these shelling was not carried out by the Armed Forces, but the Russians themselves.
In addition, witnesses who were at that time near the corps and in the hospital say that there were no panic. Human rights activists suggest that it was not a shelling, but an explosion worked, as there are witnesses who say that on the eve of the blow was not heard by extraneous sounds. It is also difficult to talk about possible causes.
The Ukrainian General Staff noted that "Russian invaders pursued at least two goals - to accuse Ukraine of committing" war crimes ", as well as to hide the torture over captives and executions that were carried out there by orders of the occupation administration and the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. " The coordinator of the media initiative for human rights Olga Reshetilova believes that "the Russians began to play a map with prisoners of war and hostages.
" "At first there were death sentences, yesterday spread a video of mockery of prisoners of war with the cutting of the genitals. Tonight they made a provocation with a firing of prison in Olenovka of Donetsk region, crowded with our prisoners of war and hostages, - says Reshetilova. Fronts or negotiations. Thus it raises rates, knowing that for Ukrainian society this issue is extremely sensitive.
" "Whatever it may be, the fire, the operation of an explosive device or other reasons, we now have reason to speak of a gross violation of the laws and crimes of the war by the Russian Federation and to suspect the commission of a war crime," says Andrey Yakovlev, a lawyer of the Ambrella association.