Pentagon: Ukraine strike on POW detention center 'unintended'

"If Kyiv bombed the pre-trial detention center in Lilinovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, it was inadvertently done," a senior Pentagon official said.

And the official added, today, Friday: “If the strike was from the Ukrainian side, I assure you that they do not want to do that.”

Today, Friday, July 29, fragments of HIMARS ammunition were found at the site of the bombing of the former detention center in Lilinovka, according to the correspondent of the “Sputnik” agency.

According to the regional defense headquarters of the Donetsk Republic, the death toll from the strike by Ukrainian forces on the center in Lilinovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are held, has risen to 53.

Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Forces of the Donetsk Republic, also confirmed to reporters that Kyiv knew that there were Ukrainian prisoners at the center in Linovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.