Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of carrying out a missile strike on a prison in Russian-controlled territory, killing at least 40 soldiers.
, killing at least 40 soldiers including some who had been captured after the fall of Mariupol in late May. Kyiv vehemently denied any such strike and said Moscow was to blame, accusing the Kremlin of deliberately shelling the prison to falsely accuse Ukraine of war crimes and cover up its own.Moscow-backed separatists in the Donetsk region said a Ukrainian attack on the prison in the town of Olenivka killed 53 prisoners of war and wounded 75 others.
The victims included Ukrainian troops who had mounted a final defense at Mariupol's besieged Azovstal steel plant, the ministry said, accusing Kyiv of carrying out the strike to deter its troops from laying down their weapons in the future. “The Russian enemy continues its propaganda methods of conducting an information war in order to accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine of shelling civilian infrastructure and the population, thus hiding its own insidious actions,” a statement from Ukraine's armed forces read on Friday.
"The Kremlin puppets decided to commit another war crime," said Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who was seemingly referring to the Moscow-backed separatist forces in Donetsk. Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said that"Russia has committed another petrifying war crime by shelling a correctional facility in the occupied Olenivka where it held Ukrainian POWs.
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