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Oleksiy Melnyk, the Center for Foreign Policy and International Security Center ...

It's not a false blow. What was the motif of killing the captives of Azov in Olenivka

Oleksiy Melnyk, the Center for Foreign Policy and International Security Center Razumkov, Razumkov of these people killed several times without emotions, it is very difficult to talk about how Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenovka of Donetsk region were burned alive from a Russian rocket strike. This is one of the cases during this war, when it is extremely difficult for me to give a dismissed assessment to me as a Ukrainian expert. Because Russia has killed these people several times.

They first tried to kill them physically. Then there were attempts to organize a tribunal of the international there to legitimize its future status. Well, it is obvious that in the end they made this cynical decision. I exclude the likelihood of a false impact or some wrong intelligence of information that would promp it to strike the Ukrainian side on this object. Because everyone knew that the soldiers were kept from Azov.

I see this as another military crime, a gross violation of all international conventions. We, Ukrainians, now need to hold back our emotions and postpone their retaliation for later. In no way can our anger be transferred to Russian prisoners of war. But in any case, this crime cannot go unpunished. It is difficult to say what arguments were guided by those who decided to kill the captives of the Azov. For example, the "hero of Russia" Motorola is remembered.

This is obviously the level of thinking of those people who are now in the ORDLO there. They have a way of thinking. The international community will certainly be condemned. It will be absolutely obvious, and it is already going - it is an attempt to broadcast its narrative that Ukrainians have destroyed Azov fighters. But, in this case, the audience that perceives it to some extent, whether it takes a neutral position on the Russian-Ukrainian war, it is outside Europe.

It is unlikely that anyone will change their mind. Because it is purely tactics of Russia's partners with Hamas. Tactics are terrorist. What concerns our Western partners, or, in general, if you take wider, as I said, there will be a condemnation. If there will be any practical steps, additional sanctions are unlikely. Now there is such an array of these crimes that every individual crime is already for a serial killer.