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Russia is reportedly trying to fabricate evidence in a Ukrainian prison raid last month that left 53 dead and 75 wounded.
U.S. intelligence officials say Russia is trying to shift the blame for causing the attack by planting false evidence suggesting that Ukrainian forces were responsible for the attack on the Olenivka prison on July 29. A decision has been made, a US official told The Associated Press.
The prison is located in the separatist-controlled, Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Both countries claim that the other country is responsible for the attack.
An unidentified official said an intelligence report on the prison contained evidence suggesting Russia was responsible for Ukraine, including ammunition from the US-supplied Intermediate-Range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). He said it showed that he intended to plant.
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Moscow claims that Ukrainian forces used US-supplied rockets in the prison, and Ukraine claims that Russia set the prison on fire and then used “false flag” tactics to blame them. ing.
The Ukrainian military has since denied firing rockets or shelling the prison.
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Ukrainian intelligence officials claimed they had evidence that Kremlin-backed separatists colluded with the KGB’s main successor, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), to attack prisons.
Prisoners in Olenivka Prison included Ukrainian prisoners of war who had survived the Russian siege at the Azovstal Ironworks in Mariupol. Ukrainian soldiers forced to surrender and captured by Russia are often imprisoned in a Russian-controlled system.
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A US intelligence report was released when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed a fact-finding mission to investigate the prison killings. The inquiry came after both Russia and Ukraine asked the United Nations to investigate his July 29 attacks.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.