Ukraine denounced this Saturday the Russian calls to “hang” or inflict another “humiliating death” on fighters of the Ukrainian Azov regiment the day after an attack on a prison where some of them were held that left more than 50 dead.
“Read this when you are told that Russia must not be isolated. There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for the execution of Ukrainian POWs and Russian troops doing so in Olenivka. They are all complicit in these war crimes and must be arrested.” responsible,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleg Nikolenko said on Twitter.
He reacted to a tweet posted Friday night in English by the Russian Embassy in the UK that was marked as “breaking Twitter’s rules on hateful conduct” but remains available as “of interest to the public.”
“Russia is a terrorist state”
“Azov fighters deserve to be executed, but not by firing squad, by hanging. They are not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death,” the tweet read.
Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can say on a diplomatic level that people deserve to be executed by hanging,” Andrii Iermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, reacted on Telegram.
“Deliberate war crime”
The Ukrainian president called Friday night a “deliberate Russian war crime” Friday’s bombing of a prison in Olenivka, Donetsk region, in the occupied territory of eastern Ukraine.
Initially, it was Moscow that implicated Kyiv, as the Russian investigative committee accused Ukrainian forces of having “fired on the prison where members of the Azov regiment are detained, using US missiles from the Himars system.”
The Azov regiment had distinguished itself in the defense of Mariupol, strategic to the southeast. After weeks-long siege and resistance at the Azovstal steel mill, some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to the Russian army in May.
Source: BFM TV
