Ukraine today denounced calls by Russians to “hang” or inflict a “humiliating death” on fighters from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, a day after a bombing of a detention center where some of the fighters were being held killed more than 50.
“Read this when you are told that Russia should not be isolated. There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops doing it in Olenivka. They are all complicit in these war crimes and must be held accountable” , Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on Twitter.
He was reacting to a tweet posted on Friday evening in English by the Russian embassy in the UK, which was labeled a “violation of Twitter’s rules on hateful behaviour” but remains available as “of public interest”.
“Azov fighters deserve to be executed, but not by firing squad, by hanging. They are not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death,” the tweet read.
“Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can say at the diplomatic level that people deserve to be executed by hanging,” reacted from the side of Andriy Yermak, the head of the Cabinet of President Volodymyr Zelensky .
The Ukrainian president last night described yesterday’s bombing of a prison in Olenivka, in the Donetsk region, in occupied eastern Ukraine, which killed “more than 50” prisoners of war, as a “deliberate Russian war crime”.
Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the Olenivka strike.
Source: Capital
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