Go to the media bankA place where captured Ukrainian militants were kept in the Yelenovka pre-trial detention center, which came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Video screenshotDONETSK, Sep 7 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic, Natalya Nikonorova, told reporters that the authorities of the republic were trying to contact the UN in connection with the shelling of a pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka by Ukrainian militants. «At the moment, communication with the UN.. Although we applied to the UNHCHR, tried to contact them, but they are absent on the territory of the republic, the phones are switched off, and we cannot even invite them to record what is happening in the republic… At the same time, they used to be physically here, on the territory of Donbass,» Nikonorova said, answering a corresponding question from a journalist. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a Ukrainian strike from HIMARS on a detention center in Yelenovka at the end of July killed 50 and wounded 73 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Later, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka was deliberate and began due to the fact that the militants who were there, in particular, from the Azov terrorist organization *, began to testify. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that Russia is calling on UN and ICRC experts to investigate Yelenovka.* Terrorist organization banned in Russia. LPR and acting the mayor of Lisichansk came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
