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published reports citing humanitarian aid volunteers who’d been detained in the Olenivka facility and released. The reports said that the building where the Ukrainian POWs died was separate from where other captives were held.
The Azov regiment soldiers were the last defenders of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel complex in mid-May. Vorosheva told the Guardian: “We were frequently called Nazis and terrorists. One of the women in my cell was an Azovstal medic. She was pregnant. I asked if I could give her my food ration. I was told, ‘No, she’s a killer’. The only question they ever asked me was, ‘Do you know any Azov soldiers?’”, the Olenvika detention center was formally known as Correction Facility No.
A man named Dmitry, whom The Post is identifying only by his first name because of concerns for the safety of relatives living under Russian occupation, said he spent weeks in a cage in the prison’s detention center and witnessed multiple ‘initiation rituals’ of newly arrived Ukrainian soldiers.