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On the day of the second anniversary of the terrorist attack in Olenivka, soldiers of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine called for telling the world about this tragedy.

As part of the investigation into the terrorist attack in Olenivka, the process of identifying seven bodies of Ukrainian servicemen is still ongoing.

Ukrainian government wants the United Nations to resume its mission to investigate the terrorist attack in Olenivka that took place there last year.

On the eve of a Russian terrorist attack in Olenivka, Donetsk region, the occupiers did not let people out of the barracks and the windows in the building were firmly closed.

Ukrainian prisoners of war are still held in the Olenivka penal facility.

The United Nations did not even condemn Russia, which did everything possible to prevent the UN mission from visiting occupied Olenivka to investigate the prison attack that occurred on the night of July 29 and killed more than 50 Ukrainian defenders.

The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has informed the new president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, about the importance of a visit to Olenivka, Donetsk region, where more than 50 defenders of Ukraine were killed.

Russian terrorist forces currently hold 150 Ukrainian citizens in captivity in Olenivka, Donetsk region.

On October 18, at 11:00 a.m., a briefing will be held on the topic: "The ICRC mission's attempts to get to the Olenivka colony, where Russia holds prisoners of war; the reaction of the Ukrainian authorities."

Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, has stated that the Red Cross must send a mission in the coming days to the colony in Olenivka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are held.

On Sofiyska Square in Kyiv, the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families, together with caring residents and guests of the capital, honored the memory of Ukrainian defenders killed in a terrorist attack on the penal facility in the village of Olenivka, Donetsk region.

Forty days into the Russian atrocious act of terror targeting Ukrainian POWs in Olenivka, Russia has failed to provide any data on the number of killed and wounded in the attack and neither did the Russians allow UN or ICRC officials to visit the site of the mass killing.

On September 6, at 1:00 p.m., a briefing will be held on the topic: "Terrorist attack in Olenivka: the current situation with the investigation and detention of prisoners."

In its statement, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has urged the international community to recognize the mass execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Donetsk Region’s Olenivka as a terrorist attack and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The International Committee of the Red Cross does not react to the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian Federation in the temporarily captured Olenivka, Donetsk region.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has stated about the preparations of a UN special mission to work on establishing the facts of the terrorist attack committed by Russia in Olenivka.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres  at a Lviv meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday will discuss grain exports, tensions over the  Zaporizhia NPP, and the tragedy in the Olenivka prison.

The European Union calls on Russia to grant representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all Ukrainian prisoners of war, including those in the Olenivka penal facility.

The Main Intelligence Directorate at the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has established some circumstances of the pre-meditated murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by Russian invaders in Olenivka, Donetsk Region.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Chairman of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau the issue of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as well as the terrorist attack in Olenivka and the need to recognize Russia as a terrorist state.