Pushilin explained the shelling of Yelenovka by the fact that the captured militants began to testify

“Obviously, this is a deliberate shelling and a desire to destroy those representatives, in particular Azov, who began to testify,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that as a result of the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the pre-trial detention center in the Yelenovka area, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 were injured, and eight employees of the detention center were also injured.

As the first deputy head of the Ministry of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov noted, the Armed Forces of Ukraine targeted the barracks in Yelenovka, where captured Ukrainian security forces are kept.