A Novosti Agency correspondent from the scene today reported that fragments of American HIMARS rocket-propelled grenade launchers were found at the site of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Lilinovka, Donetsk Republic.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops last night with missiles “HIMARS” of a prison where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, dozens of people were killed and injured.
A statement from the Russian Defense Ministry today, Friday, says that a temporary detention center in the town of Yelinovka in the Donetsk Republic, which houses Ukrainian prisoners, including militants from the extremist organization Azov, was bombed by the United States. HIMARS rocket launchers.
As a result of this shelling, which the statement called “a deliberately carried out bloody provocation”, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, another 75 were injured, and 8 employees of the center were injured of varying severity.
Source: RIA Novosti