\n President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday the shelling of a prison in the separatist-controlled east holding Ukrainian servicemen was a \"deliberate Russian war crime\" that had claimed more than 50 lives.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Today I received information about the attack by the occupiers on Olenivka (the prison's location), in the Donetsk region. It is a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war. More than 50 dead,\" he said in his daily address.\n<\/p>\n
\n Russia and Moscow-backed separatists had earlier on Friday accused Kyiv's forces of striking the jail, saying dozens of people died and scores were wounded.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ukraine denied targeting civilian infrastructure or prisoners of war.\n<\/p>\n
\n Russian television showed what appeared to be destroyed barracks and tangled metal beds.\n<\/p>\n
\n It also showed blurred images of what looked like human bodies.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Russian defence ministry said the Ukrainian prisoners of war included members of the Azov battalion, who defended the Azovstal plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol.\n<\/p>\n
\n Russia describes the former paramilitary unit, which has previous links to far-right groups, as a neo-Nazi organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday the shelling of a prison in the separatist-controlled east holding Ukrainian servicemen was a \"deliberate Russian war crime\" that had claimed more than 50 lives. \"Today I received information about the attack by the occupiers on Olenivka (the prison's location), in the Donetsk region. It is a deliberate Russian war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-104171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n