Judge's gavel. Archival photoLUGANSK, Aug 6 Rodion Miroshnik, head of the LPR office in the Russian Federation, said that about 20 militants of the Azov battalion, recognized in the Russian Federation as a terrorist and banned by the they gave, they use it in court and tribunal. Earlier, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said that Ukraine attacked the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka with American HIMARS MLRS immediately after the captured militants began to testify.
Kyiv refused to pick up its volunteers detained in the LPR»During the Ukrainian shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, about 20 Azov militants were killed, but their testimony is used in court and tribunal,» wrote Miroshnik in his Telegram channel. According to him, the investigating authorities of the DPR stated that among those killed «there were defendants in criminal cases ready to be brought to court.» Criminal cases against those killed will be closed due to non-rehabilitating circumstances. At the same time, their testimony will be used by the investigation in other criminal cases against other defendants, he added. As previously reported by the Russian Defense Ministry, 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 73 Ukrainian prisoners of war were injured in the Ukrainian strike from HIMARS on the detention center in Yelenovka. Later, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka was deliberate and began because the militants who were there began to testify. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russia was calling on UN and ICRC experts to investigate in Yelenovka. As noted the other day at the UN, Secretary General António Guterres received requests for an investigation from both Russia and Ukraine. The possibility of such an investigation, according to a UN representative, is being studied.*Terrorist organization banned in Russia
