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.
Ostap Shved had 9 shrapnel wounds - eight in the leg and one in the hand
Russian artillery strikes were recorded towards Olenivka, and Ukrainian prisoners had been transferred to the hit barracks a few days prior.
You were in Olenivka camp when an explosion occurred killing 57 POWs and injuring over 100 on July 29, 2022, in what Kyiv called a deliberate Russian war crime.
At least 51 Ukrainian prisoners of war died in the bombardment of the Moscow-controlled Olenivka jail
Over 20,000 people died in Mariupol due to attacks by Russian forces.
As a result of the strike, about 40 people died and 130 were injured.
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Source story: day-160-2023-02-12