Prison attack that killed Ukraine PoWs a war crime, says Zelenskiy, amid calls for UN inquiry
by Peter Beaumont in Kyiv, and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#61Z93)
Ukraine president says more than 50 people died, as Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of being behind attack on prison in Russian-occupied Donetsk
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denounced as a war crime a prison attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-occupied Donetsk, as both sides traded blame for the deaths.
In a Friday night address, the Ukrainian president said more than 50 died in the assault on Olenivka, calling it a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war".
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