“Washington and Kyiv remove witnesses of their crimes”: the State Duma named the reason for the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the colony in Yelenovka

“President Zelensky and Washington are behind the missile strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, which included militants of the nationalist Azov battalion,” said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

In his opinion, the attack on the place of detention of Ukrainian prisoners of war is designed to prevent a new Nuremberg trial, in which the Azov people would testify.

“Washington and Kyiv are removing witnesses to their crimes against humanity so that the citizens of European states and the United States do not turn away from them, and the supply of weapons and ammunition continues.

Public recognition of their atrocities by the nationalists of the Azov Battalion would inevitably lead to demands to prosecute the leaders of a number of NATO countries,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, on the night of July 29, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from the US-supplied HIMARS pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners were kept, including militants of the Azov national battalion.

According to the latest data, 53 people were killed, 75 more were injured.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case.

At the same time, the United States has chosen a line of conduct aimed at protecting the actions of the Ukrainian military.

“If the strike was carried out by Ukrainian forces, I can tell you with confidence: first of all, it was unintentional,” a senior Pentagon official said at a briefing.

At the same time, the coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, chose to decline detailed comments on this subject due to lack of information.

“We simply do not have enough information to deliberately discuss these (at the moment. -

) extremely early messages,” he explained.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did the same.

According to her, they saw reports of shelling in Washington, but they will not comment on what happened yet.

Summary of the DPR

Eight civilians of the Donetsk People's Republic have become victims of shelling by the Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours, according to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR.

“Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on July 29 to 08:00 on July 30, eight people were killed and another 15 civilians were injured as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the report says.

According to an RT correspondent, among the victims is a 15-year-old teenager who was injured as a result of an artillery shell burst in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

In addition, two people were injured in the village of Aleksandrovka.

In total, over the past 24 hours, the territory of the DPR was shelled 75 times by the Ukrainian military, who fired 632 units of various ammunition, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said.

“55 housing constructions were damaged in Kievsky, Kirovsky, Leninsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, in Aleksandrovka and Staromikhaylovka, Gorlovka, as well as seven civilian infrastructure facilities,” the official information summary of the DPR JCCC says.

Offensive actions of the LPR

According to the official representative of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, during the offensive, the Ukrainian military lost up to 65 personnel, three armored personnel carriers, two artillery installations and four units of special vehicles.

He also pointed out that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements.

“Only over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the village of Svatovo using the Tochka-U tactical missile system.

As a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured, eight residential buildings, four garages and two cars were damaged,» the report says.

The shelling of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station

On the night of July 30, Ukrainian troops launched a series of missile strikes from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the direction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, said Vladimir Leontiev, head of the administration of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region.

“Exactly at midnight, these HIMARS missiles hit the hydroelectric power station.

The air defense system worked, reflected everything, the hydroelectric power station was not affected, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Leontiev, the hydroelectric power plant continues its work, no hits on the object were recorded.