“The Russian Federation, in the interests of conducting an objective investigation of the attack on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, which led to the death of a large number of Ukrainian prisoners of war, officially invited experts from the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross,” TASS reports.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the detention center in Yelenovka with captured Ukrainian soldiers and militants located there using the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case after the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to RIA Novosti, fragments of the HIMARS MLRS ammunition were found at the site of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka.