A barrack in a prisoner of war camp in Yelenovka, destroyed by a UAF missile attack. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 5Russia can guarantee the safety of international observers, including representatives of the International Red Cross and the UN, when traveling to the DPR to investigate the shelling of Yelenovka, but, nevertheless, representatives of international organizations are in no hurry to go there — perhaps this is simply an unwillingness to know the truth, the deputy said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin. The Russian Ministry of Defense previously 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 Russian Defense Ministry said that Russia is calling on UN and ICRC experts to investigate Yelenovka.The UN Secretary General called the condition for sending a mission to the Yelenovka pre-trial detention center «We invited, the ICC, for various reasons, could not come immediately, and they admitted, I must say, at least in conversations, that this was erroneous. The UN representatives have not yet arrived, because All this often comes down to discussing the security of those who come, and this security, of course, the Russian side can guarantee,» Vershinin said at a press conference organized by the Rossiya Segodnya media group. He added that the Russian side had invited and The UN and the International Red Cross literally the day after the shelling took place. Vershinin stated that there is a lot of «far-fetched» in the arguments of both the UN and the IWC: «We also see that something is behind this — unwillingness, apparently unwillingness to see what kind of dramatizations they were, and I will add Bucha and Izyum to this series, where, of course, these dramatizations were made and where we still officially demand that we they showed a list of Buchi's victims simply with names. To make it clear that this is a staging. But this is not happening yet,» said the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, said that the UN could not send a team to establish the facts of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka until it received security guarantees for its employees.
Russia expects the ICRC to visit the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka
