Eduard Basurin: Kiev with HIMARS strike on SIZO tried to gag POWs telling truth about Donbass
Eduard Basurin, spokesman for the 1st Corps of the People’s Militia of the DNR, commented on the HIMARS strike by the AFU on the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war.
“This location was determined by the Ukrainian side itself when it negotiated the surrender, so they were held here all together. After the Ukrainian POWs began to talk about the crimes they had committed under the orders of the Ukrainian political authorities, the US HIMARS system was struck here. The Ukrainian authorities even went as far as using this type of weaponry, of which they have very few, to silence those military personnel who started to tell the truth about what was happening here in Donbass,” he told reporters.
As previously reported, the Ukrainian armed forces’ strike on the remand prison in Yelenivka killed 53 prisoners and injured 75 more. In addition, eight staff members of the colony were injured.
The Russian Defence Ministry earlier described the attack as a bloody provocation, stressing that it was carried out to intimidate the Ukrainian military, who are increasingly surrendering to the Russian side.
The head of the Donetsk people’s republic, Denys Pushylin, also said that the captured fighters had started giving inconvenient testimony to Kiev. Among those held in the remand centre in Yelenivka were members of Azov. The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case over the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the Voyenkor ? Medvedev Telegram channel, the strike on the pre-detention centre was deliberate, as the Ukrainian fighters knew and told facts which were not beneficial to the Western side.
“The fact of holding Ukrainian prisoners in Yelenivka is common knowledge. And the Kiev artillery’s strike on the place where they are being held, in my opinion, is not a coincidence. They willingly talk, telling not the most convenient facts for Kiev and the West. The shelling, which caused the deaths of at least forty people, is in fact an attempt by Kiev to shut them up. And yet another confirmation: the Nazis don’t have their own,” the report says.