Ukraine returns bodies of Ukrainian servicemen killed in the terrorist attack in Olenivka

Ukraine has returned the bodies of the dead Ukrainian POWs who died during a Russian terrorist attack on the night of July 28-29, 2022. 

Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, stated this, Ukrinform reports.

Most of the bodies have already been identified. 

After the terrorist attack in Olenivka, he spoke with Russian Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova and offered to allow international experts to enter Olenivka.

"I suggested to Moskalkova that experts from different countries should come to the site of the explosion in Olenivka prison, some of whom should be invited by Russia and some by Ukraine. They take the same material for examination: earth, some metal things, some parts of the building. Then we transparently show which experts have done which expertise," Lubinets said.

At first, the Russian side agreed to this step, but then there was information that the Russians were urgently cleaning the barracks where Ukrainian prisoners of war were held and where the Russians had set off the explosion.

Lubinets also stressed that the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the terrorist attack in occupied Olenivka has never agreed to review Ukrainian materials on the explosion in the colony.

"The mission was closed, and I did not even meet with them. In my opinion, I did not meet with them because of their unwillingness to actually do anything," Ukrinform quoted the Ombudsman as saying.

At the same time, over the five months of the mission's work, he repeatedly tried to meet with its members online or offline.