Dozens of Ukrainian POWs from the Azov Mariupol unit were reportedly killed in a prison in Donetsk Oblast when Russian forces allegedly herded them into a building and set off thermobaric charges.
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Dozens of Ukrainian POWs from the Azov Mariupol unit were reportedly killed in a prison in Donetsk Oblast when Russian forces allegedly herded them into a building and set off thermobaric charges.
Russia set off an explosion in the barracks of the Olenivka penal colony on the night of July 29, 2022
At least 50 Azovstal defenders were killed in the Olenivka attack
At least 50 soldiers were killed and about 100 were wounded in the Azov regiment during the Olenivka attack according to Kateryna Prokopenko
About 50 Ukrainian defenders were killed and more than 70 others were seriously injured in the Olenivka prison attack.
He survived the terrorist attack on the Olenivka prison camp.
The attack resulted in the deaths of at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) and injured around 130
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Source story: day-160-2023-02-12