A new Associated Press investigation, based on an unpublished UN report and eyewitness accounts, indicates that Russia is responsible for the deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the July 2022 explosion at the Olenivka camp.
It is reported that one of the main versions is the explosion of a planted device. At the same time, shots were fired from the "Hail" to silence the explosions.
According to the surviving prisoners, on the morning of July 27, 2022, a group of "Azovs" was transferred to a separate room located at a distance from other barracks. The transfer was explained to them by the renovation of their old barracks. Although other prisoners remained there, who later stated that no repairs had been made. On the same day, the guards dug trenches for themselves.
On July 28, the colony's leadership ordered the guard posts to be moved away from the new barracks, and the guards put on body armor and helmets, which they had never done before. In the evening, loud shots rang out from the "Hail", but this had happened before.
And already at night there were powerful explosions, as a result of which the prisoners died. Those who survived ran outside, but the guards shot in the air, told them not to approach the gate, laughed, threw rags at people and shone their flashlights.
Medics arrived only a few hours later - Ukrainian prisoners from other barracks with medical training.
The survivors were then housed in a separate room, which UN experts say was designed to prevent them from telling what happened.
Some prisoners told how after that, people dressed in military uniforms came to the scene, brought boxes with fragments of HIMARS missiles and spread them near the barracks.
We will remind that the official version of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is the Ukrainian HIMARS attack on the barracks.
Ukraine claims that the prisoners died as a result of an explosion arranged by the Russians.
