The Russian Ministry of Defense on Friday accused Ukraine of having bombed a prison, killing several dozen Ukrainian prisoners of war, near Donetsk, in the territory held by the separatists. Kyiv, for its part, denies having perpetrated the attack, which it attributes to Russia. Follow the latest developments in the war in Ukraine here.
11:23 p.m. : a bombed prison, the Ukrainian president denounces “a deliberate Russian war crime”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Friday’s prison bombing that killed “more than 50 people” a “deliberate Russian war crime”, after Moscow blamed Ukrainian forces.
Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian president oversaw a first shipment of grain, crucial for global food security.
The strike on Olenivka prison, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were held, in separatist territory in eastern Ukraine, is “a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder”, the leader says of the Ukrainian state. This “attack by the occupiers” left “more than 50 dead”, he added.
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