Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has strongly condemned an attack on a facility housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern Donetsk region that killed more than 50 people, calling it a mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the Russian side.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on the 29th that many Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in an attack on the Olenivka prison camp in the pro-Russian-held area of ​​eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.



Footage circulated by the state-run Russian news agency showed the roof badly damaged and the facility containing many charred bunk beds.



The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the high-mobility rocket artillery system (Hymers) provided by the United States was used in the attack, and criticizes it as "a provocation."



In response, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces denied the Russian side's allegations on the 29th, stating, "Russian occupiers pretended that Ukraine had committed 'war crimes' and tortured and executed prisoners of war." are trying to hide it," he strongly criticized.



Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that more than 50 people had been killed in the attack, accusing it of a "deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia's war crimes." said it had launched an investigation into the attack.



High Representative Borrell, the foreign minister of the EU = European Union, has been criticized by the international community on the 29th, saying, ``The EU condemns the atrocities committed by the Russian military and others in the strongest possible terms.''

President Zelensky: Mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message released on Sunday that more than 50 people were killed in an attack on a prisoner of war camp in a pro-Russian-held area of ​​eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.



President Zelensky called it a "deliberate Russian war crime and mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war."



Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba also tweeted that "Russia has committed another horrific war crime" and added, "I strongly condemn this atrocious violation of international humanitarian law and designate Russia as a terrorist state. I ask you to do so."



Ukrainian prosecutors say they have opened an investigation into the attack