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The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that at least 40 Ukrainians were killed after US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) were used by Ukrainian forces to attack occupied territories in Donbass and attack a Russian detention center. claimed the prisoner was dead.
A Ukrainian defense official denied the allegations, telling Fox News Digital that it was likely a “brutal execution of prisoners of war.”
“We are 99% certain this is a Russian attack,” said an official.
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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is still collecting information on the incident, and officials could not confirm the number of captured Ukrainian soldiers killed or wounded in the strike.
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that about 75 Ukrainian soldiers were also wounded after the missile strike hit “a pretrial detention center in the Olenivka settlement area where Ukrainian prisoners of war, including fighters from the Azov battalion, are being held.” did. “
Eight prison staff were said to have been “severely injured to varying degrees”.
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Russia-backed separatist leader Denis Pushrin reportedly told Interfax that the detention center is located in the front-line town of Olenivka and holds more than 190 detainees.
The Ukrainian military issued a statement saying Russia deliberately detained them with the intention of spreading propaganda by covering up “the torture and shooting of prisoners that took place there” and accusing “Ukraine of committing ‘war crimes'”. claimed to have attacked
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“According to the commander of the Artillery Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Missile Forces and Ground Forces Command, the Ukrainian army did not launch missile and artillery fire in the area of the Olenivka settlement,” the statement said.
The army’s chief of staff said Ukrainian artillery units were able to carry out “highly accurate strikes” thanks to the high-precision weapons provided by Western allies.