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A newly released internal analysis by a United Nations group of experts concludes that Russian forces deliberately planned and executed the July 29 2022 attack on Penal Colony No. 120 near Olenivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The strike, which employed thermobaric munitions fired from territory under Russian control, killed more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war and wounded over 100 others. The report marks the first time the UN has formally attributed responsibility for the incident to Moscow, overturning earlier Russian assertions that Ukrainian shelling caused the blast. Ukraine’s Parliamentary Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said the findings confirm a “premeditated war crime” and called on international bodies to pursue accountability. Kyiv hopes the UN’s assessment will bolster potential war-crimes prosecutions and intensify pressure on Russia in international forums.
For the first time, the UN has acknowledged that the Olenivka prison massacre was a premeditated Russian war crime, according to Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets. Over 50 Ukrainian POWs were killed in a July 2022 explosion. New UN analysis confirms: Russia planned and carried https://t.co/o6F4keZXSv
A group of UN experts has released a new document confirming that the explosion at Penal Colony No. 120 near Olenivka on the night of July 29, 2022, was a carefully planned terrorist attack carried out by the Russian side. The attack killed over 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war and https://t.co/HVTBiL2SPc
SHOCKING WAR CRIME: A 2022 Russian attack on Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka was a deliberate Moscow-planned massacre, per the Center for Human Rights. 50+ killed, 100+ injured. https://t.co/JUYTlE5dbs
