Military says Russia trying to hide fact that Ukrainian prisoners of war were ‘tortured and murdered’

Ukraine’s armed forces have denied they were responsible for a missile strike on a prison in Russian-occupied Donbas in which Moscow claimed 40 Ukrainian prisoners were killed.

Ukraine’s military added that the claims that the prisoners were killed in shelling were designed to hide the fact that the men had been “tortured and murdered”. The country’s foreign minister, Dymtro Kuleba, accused Russia of a “barbaric war crime”.

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