Russia invites UN and ICRC to investigate Elenovka prison bombing

MADRID, 31 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Government has offered this Sunday to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross the possibility that its experts investigate the bombing that occurred on Friday against the Elenovka prison, in which around fifty prisoners of war would have died Ukrainians, and for which kyiv and Moscow hold each other responsible.

"The Russian Federation officially invites experts from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry out an objective investigation of the attack on the Elenovka detention center, which resulted in multiple casualties among Ukrainian prisoners of war," it announced. the Russian Defense Ministry.

At the same time, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Dimitri Polianski, announced this Sunday that he had just informed the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, that Moscow has "irrefutable evidence" that "Ukraine is responsible for the bombing".

"The United Nations should not hide when it comes to condemning this crime of the kyiv regime. Russia launches an international investigation to find and punish the culprits," he has made known through his Twitter account, after recalling that he had already accused kyiv of the authorship of this bombing, carried out according to their version of events with a multiple launch rocket system made in the United States.

After these statements, the United Nations has a free hand in principle to investigate what happened, given that the condition raised yesterday by the deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq, who confirmed the international institution's willingness to investigate what happened as long as "both parties" in conflict "gave their permission".

The same Saturday, the head of the Human Rights Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament, Dimitri Lubinets, requested in writing to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to carry out this investigation, a request repeated shortly after by the president of the country, Volodimir Zelenski, who extended the invitation to the United Nations.

Lubinets recommended that the international experts receive permission to go to the site immediately, taking with them all the necessary materials to carry out the analyzes 'in situ', preferably, without the interference of either of the two parties in contention.

"Ukrainian experts will not participate in this and, in our opinion, Russian experts should not participate. This has to be done by international experts from different institutions around the world to ensure that the investigation of this crime is as impartial as possible," he stressed.