The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) still has not received official access to the Oleniv prison in the territory controlled by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war died as a result of shelling under unclear circumstances. which Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of, AFP and Agerpres write on Sunday.

Olenivska prison, after the attackPhoto: AP / AP / Profimedia

“To date, we have not received official confirmation that would give us access to the location or prisoners of war who were victims of the attack, and our offer of material assistance has not yet been accepted,” the ICRC said in a statement. airs Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday evening, the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that it had sent an invitation to the ICRC and the UN to go to the site. “The Russian Federation has officially invited experts from the UN and the International Committee in the interests of an objective investigation of the raid on the detention center “Olenivka” (Olenivka), which led to the death of a significant number of Ukrainian prisoners of war. of the Red Cross,” said the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross requested access “to all places where the dead and wounded were taken,” and offered assistance in evacuating the wounded and medical supplies.

Russia claims that the attack on the prison was carried out from the long-range HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system used by the Ukrainian army, which has currently received about 12 such systems from the United States. According to Moscow, at the time of the attack, there were 193 Ukrainian prisoners of war in this detention center, of whom 50 died and 73 were wounded.

In turn, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi accused Russia of this attack, which he called a “deliberate Russian war crime.”

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