ZURICH – The Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross (ICRC) has not but obtained permission to go to the positioning of Friday’s assault that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of battle, it mentioned on Sunday, condemning the incident on the Olenivka facility in jap Ukraine.
“Households should obtain pressing information of and solutions on what occurred to their family members. The events should do the whole lot of their energy, together with by way of neutral investigations, to assist decide the info behind the assault and convey readability to this challenge. Nonetheless, it isn't the position or mandate of the ICRC to hold out public investigations into alleged battle crimes,” it mentioned in a press release.
Russia on Sunday invited United Nations and Purple Cross specialists to probe the deaths of dozens of prisoners held by Moscow-backed separatists.
Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations over the missile strike or explosion early on Friday that appeared to have killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners within the front-line city of Olenivka.
The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday revealed an inventory of fifty Ukrainian prisoners of battle killed and 73 wounded in what it mentioned was a Ukrainian navy strike with a U.S.-made Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
Ukraine’s armed forces have denied accountability, saying Russian artillery attacked the jail to cover mistreatment there.
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