Ukraine is demanding that the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross instantly ship a delegation to the Russian prisoner of warfare camp at Olenivka within the Russian-occupied Donetsk area.
Andriy Yermak, the top of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s workplace, revealed the decision for a mission on the administration’s web site.
“On the finish of July, on account of terrorist shelling by the Russian occupiers, greater than 50 defenders of Ukraine have been killed” on the camp, Yermak informed the Purple Cross, in accordance with the general public message.
CNN lately investigated the camp’s shelling.
The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned a Ukrainian HIMARS rocket assault was answerable for the strike. The CNN investigation, based mostly on evaluation of video and pictures from the scene, satellite tv for pc imagery from earlier than and after the assault and the work of forensic and weapons consultants, concluded the Russian model of occasions was very doubtless a fabrication.
Within the aftermath of the assault, the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned it was prepared for the Purple Cross to go to the camp. However, regardless of repeated requests from the group, no go to was ever organized.
Yermak mentioned the situations below which Ukrainian prisoners are held, and what they face in locations of detention within the Russian Federation and within the briefly occupied territory of Ukraine, “is extraordinarily necessary.”
“Due to this fact, I name for the Purple Cross mission with worldwide media representatives to reach in Ukraine no later than in three days, even when you don’t obtain affirmation from Russia by this time. And we’re positive that Russia isn’t within the reality being recognized.”
It’s unclear how any mission to Olenivka may occur with out Russian consent, because the detention middle is in Russian-occupied territory.
