SIZO in Yelenovka. File photoUN, Oct 14 The UN is waiting for security guarantees so that the Elenovka Detention Center shelling fact-finding team can go to the scene, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, said at a briefing. «We have nothing yet report on the mission's departure. We still need reasonable security guarantees,» Haq said. According to him, the UN is working with the parties to get the access that the mission needs and provide the conditions that the mission needs to travel. In early October, Dujarric said that the UN cannot send a team to the scene to establish the facts of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka until it receives security guarantees for its employees. Later, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said that «naturally, the Russian side can guarantee security.» The diplomat stated that there are a lot of «far-fetched» arguments in the arguments of both the UN and the IWC. He suggested that «something is behind this — an unwillingness, apparently, to find out the truth.» The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during a Ukrainian strike from HIMARS on a detention center in Yelenovka at the end of July, 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 73 wounded. 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 Azov (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), began to testify. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that Russia is calling on UN and ICRC experts to investigate Yelenovka.
