The Embassy of Russia in the United Kingdom has called on his Twitter account to “hang” the members, captured by Russian forces, of the Azov Battalionthe military regiment that belongs to the National Guard of Ukraine and that stood out in the defense of Mariúpol, a strategic port city in the southeast of this country.
The Russian message reads thus: “Lthe militants [de Azov] they deserve execution, but death not by firing squad, but by hanging, because they are not true soldiers. I know they deserve a humiliating death”.
The social network Twitter considers that the message violates its regulations on “hateful conduct”, although it has only partially censored this message, adding a warning to the publication, which it did not completely delete, considering it “in the public interest”.
💬#Azov militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they’re not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death.
A married couple from #Mariupol tell how they were shelled by 🇺🇦forces from #Azovstal. #StopNaziUkraine https://t.co/jyQGEOJFYz
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) July 29, 2022
Russia has published this tweet after the authorities of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, related to Moscow, raised the death toll to more than 50 due to an attack blamed on the Ukrainian Army and that has reached a prison in the town of Yelenovka (town also known as Olenivka, in Ukrainian). Yes Well, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have denied having carried out these actions and have pointed to the Russians as responsible.
In the middle of accusations, Andriy Yermakhead of the office of the Ukrainian presidency, accused Russia, via Telegram chat, of being a “terrorist state”.
“In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can speak diplomatically about the fact that people they deserve to be hanged. Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. What more evidence is needed?” she added.
In tune with this message, this Saturday, the families and loved ones of several of the members of the Azov Battalion They protested in kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to demand that Russia be recognized internationally as a “sponsor of terrorism”.
Tragedy in Olenivka prison in Ukraine
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The soldiers of this regiment were captured by Russian forces after a three-month siege of the steel plant in the city of Azovstal. At the moment, the Azov Battalion is still analyzing the list of those killed in this attack, due to the fear of the families that their relatives are part of the fifty dead.
In addition, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guardianthroughout this Saturday, the Russian strikes on the Ukraine front have left one person dead in the south of the country and missiles have also hit a school in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
“War crime”
The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenskihas already branded the attack on the prison, for which he blames Russia, as “a war crime”. For this reason, the leader has called the United Nations Organization (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to initiate an investigation in this regard.
“Bombing is a cynical act of terrorism by the Russian Federationa military provocation and a classic false flag operation with the purpose of hide war crimes, discredit the Ukrainian armed forces and increase tensions in Ukrainian society”they say from the Army of Ukraine.
Read this when they tell you Russia must not be isolated.
There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops doing it in Olenivka.
They are all ACCOMPLICES in these war crimes and must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/6TMlh4uD5b
— Oleg Nikolenko (@OlegNikolenko_) July 30, 2022
Both events – the attack on the prison and the calls to “hang” the members of Azov – have also been referred to on Twitter by the spokesman for Ukrainian diplomacy Oleg Nikolenko.
“There is no difference between the Russian diplomats who call for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and the Russian troops who do so in Olenivka. They are all complicit in these war crimes and must be held accountable,” he said bluntly.
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