Ukraine demands UN mission to investigate terrorist attack in Olenivka as soon as possible - Lubinets

The UN mission has never agreed to review Ukrainian materials on the explosion in the Olenivka colony in Donetsk region on the night of July 28-29, 2022. Ukraine calls on the UN to fulfill its mandate and investigate the massacre in Olenivka. This was emphasized by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack in Olenivka, UNN reports .

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The Ombudsman reminded that those killed in Olenivka had the official status of prisoners of war and were verified by the ICRC." 

Ukraine appealed to the UN and the ICRC as guarantors of the agreements regarding the defenders of Azovstal. The agreements stipulated that their lives would be spared and that they would be exchanged.

The organizations expressed their readiness to investigate the attack. On August 3, 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the organization was preparing a group of experts for this purpose. Five months later, he disbanded the mission due to lack of security guarantees.

Russia has not granted access to Olenivka to either Ukraine or international organizations. The UN mission has never agreed to get acquainted with the Ukrainian materials on the explosion in the colony. I have repeatedly tried to meet with its members and expressed my readiness to hand over the materials that Ukraine has

He also said that he had offered to visit the site of the tragedy with the Russian Ombudsman, but was refused.

Ukraine demands that the UN mission resume its work as soon as possible or that a new mission be established. I call on the UN and ICRC to fulfill their mandate and investigate the massacre in Olenivka

Addendum

The SBU served suspicion notices to two collaborators suspected of involvement in the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka in July 2022.

Recall 

During the explosion on the night of July 29, 2022, which took place on the territory of the former penal colony in the village of Olenivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, the buildingwhere Ukrainian prisoners of war were held was destroyed.

On July 7, 2023, Ukraine managed to return the bodies of prisoners of war who 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. 

UN rejects Russia's claims that Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in Olenivkawere killed by Ukrainian HIMARS strike