“Tonight, the Kyiv regime deliberately carried out a bloody provocation.
A missile attack from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system was carried out at the pre-trial detention center in the area of the settlement of Yelenovka, which contains Ukrainian prisoners of war, including militants of the Azov formation, ”said Konashenkov.
According to him, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded.
In addition, eight employees of the isolation ward received injuries of varying severity.
Earlier it was reported that as a result of the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the prison in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, 40 people were killed and 130 were injured.