MPs propose to introduce a Day of Mourning and Commemoration of the Azov Brigade Soldiers
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MPs propose to set July 28-29 as the Days of Mourning for Azov fighters killed in Olenivka. The draft resolution has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada, MP Maria Mezentseva said.
A group of MPs has registered a draft resolution in the Verkhovna Rada to introduce Days of Mourning and Commemoration in Ukraine on July 28 and 29 to honor the memory of the soldiers of the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade who died as a result of the terrorist attack in Olenivka. This was reported by MP Maria Mezentseva, UNN reports.
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The Verkhovna Rada has registered a draft resolution to establish Days of Mourning and Commemoration of the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade on July 28 and 29 in Ukraine. On these days, it is proposed to honor the soldiers who died as a result of the terrorist attack in Olenivka. We are working to make it a single day to honor
Currently, the text of the resolution is not available on the VR website .
Recall
An explosion on the night of July 29, 2022, on the territory of the former penal colony in the village of Olenivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region destroyed a building where Ukrainian prisoners of war were held. According to reports, on July 29, 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and more than 70 were injured in the colony in Olenivka.
On July 7, 2023, Ukraine managed to return the bodies of prisoners of warwho died as a result of a terrorist attack in a colony in the occupied village of Olenivka in Donetsk region. Most of the bodies have been identified.
The UN rejected Russian claimsthat Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in Olenivka were killed by a Ukrainian HIMARS strike.
Ombudsman Lubinets calls on the UN to resume the mission to investigate the explosion in the Olenivka colony. Ukraine is ready to provide materials, but the UN has not yet agreed to consider them.
The investigation is considering several versions of the terrorist attack in the colony in Olenivka, where 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and more than 70 were injured, but the main version is that a thermobaric charge was detonated, given the consequences.
Yuriy Belousov, head of the Department for Combating Crimes in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office, said that the priority of the International Criminal Court for this year and next year will be a large block on torture by Russians in Ukrainian detention centers.
