As a result of the missile strike, 50 Ukrainians were killed, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
MOSCOW, July 31. /tass/. The Russian Federation, in the interests of investigating the strike on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, invited experts from the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The Russian Federation, in the interests of conducting an objective investigation of the strike on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, which led to the death of a large number of Ukrainian prisoners of war, officially invited experts from the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross," the ministry said.
On Saturday, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, reported that on July 29, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a strike from the American HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system at the detention center near Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of the morning of July 30, 50 Ukrainians were killed as a result of a missile strike, 73 prisoners of war were taken to medical institutions with severe wounds.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also published on its official information resources the namesake lists of those killed and wounded as a result of the AFU missile strike on Elenovka.
