From DW relating to the piece you C/Pd from Tass. You might notice the difference.
Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy condemns attack on POW prison
07/30/2022July 30, 2022
Kyiv and Moscow traded blame for shelling a POW prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Blinken and Lavrov spoke for the first time since the beginning of the war. DW rounds up the latest.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday denounced as a war crime what he said was the Russian shelling of a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs).
"I heard reports today about the attack of the occupiers on Olenivka, Donetsk region. It was a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war. More than 50 dead,"
Zelenskyy said in a late-night video address.
He called on Washington to declare Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism following the attack.
"I am appealing especially to the United States of America. A decision is needed and it is needed now," Zelenskyy said, adding that the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) needed to do more to protect Ukrainian POWs.
Russia's Defense Ministry earlier claimed that Kyiv's forces had carried out the attack, in which 40 reportedly died, to prevent its soldiers from surrendering due to low morale.
Separatist authorities and Russian officials said the attack killed 53 Ukrainian POWs and wounded another 75.
The Ukrainian military denied making any strikes in Olenivka, and it accused the Russians of shelling the prison to cover up the alleged torture and execution of Ukrainians there.
The reports have not been independently verified.
The Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner by invading Russian forces after fierce fighting for the port of Mariupol on the Azov Sea. The Ukrainians had been holed up at the Azovstal steel plant for months as they defended the city.
Meanwhile, the ICRC said it was seeking access to the facility and has offered to help evacuate the wounded.
Kyiv and Moscow traded blame for shelling a POW prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Blinken and Lavrov spoke for the first time since the beginning of the war. DW rounds up the latest.
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