The terrorist attack in Olenivka of the Russian Federation tried to discredit the supply of weapons to Ukraine - intelligence

The Russian Federation killed Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka (photo: Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko) Representative of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a member of the coordination headquarters on the management of prisoners of war Andriy Yusov said that Russia had carried out a terrorist attack in Olenovka for discharge. “Actually, since the beginning of this terrible tragedy and the terrible farce we saw from the Russians, it was a falsification.

From the first reports of use and deliberate shelling of HIMARS high -precision weapons, it was a special operation against the supply of Western high -precision weapons to Ukraine. It was a special operation to destabilize Ukrainian society and demoralize Ukrainian prisoners of war. From the very beginning it was a falsification, but the world quickly exposes such things, ”Yusov said on the Ukrainian Teleterna.

He noted that the events in Olenivka also complicated negotiations on the exchange of prisoners. "Rather, it complicated negotiations, it is clear that they were already difficult, in particular because some in Russia thinks that they can dictate the conditions is not the case," Yusov said.

On August 3, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian invaders were not going to exchange prisoners of war and committed a premeditated murder of defenders of Ukraine in the Olenovsky colony to hide the torture and improper conditions of their maintenance. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin said earlier that, according to international experts, the cause of the explosion in the colony was a thermobaric weapon.

On July 29, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the Russian Federation struck a colony in the occupied Olenivka to accuse Ukraine of committing war crimes, as well as hide the torture over the captives and executions, which were carried out by orders of the occupation administration and command in the temporarily occupied territory. In the colony, the occupiers kept in particular the defenders of Mariupol, including the fighters of the Azov Regiment.

The UN and the Red Cross had to guarantee their safety. Russian propaganda media said at least 53 Ukrainian captive servicemen were killed. The next day, the Russian Defense Ministry published a list of 42 dead. Ukraine has stated that they have not yet received this data. According to the Attorney General's office, about 40 people were killed as a result of the Russian terrorist attack and injured. On June 6, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there are more than 2.