UT NOTE: Why would I believe the Russian version of this story? you ask. Because the US Govt and West versions of reality — intensified and amplified to make CV-19 a bad Hollywood movie — have repeatedly been so full of lies / propaganda that the US Govt had to pass legisltation allowing them to lie to the people they govern and by extension to the world. It has gotten so bad in the image-conscious West that it really looks like they have literally forgotten how to tell the truth. As Grandma used to say, “Every lie you tell requires more lies that you must remember until you finally tell a lie that exposes the first lie.” Or something like that…
RT, 8/4/22
Russia’s Defence Ministry has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting a prison in Donbass where it knew dozens of its own POWs were being held.
The Ukrainian authorities were aware that their soldiers, who surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steel plant, were being held at the prison in the village of Yelenovka, as Kiev itself insisted on them being placed there, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin said on Wednesday.
RT: Ukraine asked for POWs to be placed in prison it shelled – Russia
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Daily pictures : Ukrainian war crime in Yelenovka
The previous attempt occurred on May 18, while the surrender of the Ukrainian garrison in Azovstal, Mariupol, was ongoing. The center started to accommodate the prisoners of war (POWs). The republican and Russian air defense managed to shoot down the Ukrainian Tochka missiles.