{"id":268708,"date":"2023-05-11T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268708"},"modified":"2023-05-12T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:54:30","slug":"updated-they-destroy-themselves-himars-struck-ukrainian-pows-in-bakhmut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268708","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: \u2018They Destroy Themselves\u2019: HIMARS Struck Ukrainian POWs In Bakhmut"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Front \u2013 May 9, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Russian military reporter showed the building where Ukrainian POWs were waiting for their upcoming exchange. In total, four missiles launched with the US-made HIMARS MLRS hit the facility. They passed through all the floors and reached the basement where heavily wounded prisoners were held.<\/p>\n

To the disappointment of the Ukrainian leadership, none of the prisoners died. Wagner fighters also were not wounded.<\/p>\n

The report from the spot showed Ukrainian servicemen who were shocked by the decision of the Kiev regime to kill them. They felt themselves \u2018not needed\u2019 and concluded that they were simply used as a cannon fodder.<\/p>\n

In another audio appeal, Evgeny Prigozhin addressed Vladimir Zelensky and the leadership of the Western countries, who provided Kiev with such MLRS. Prigozhin told them to ask for his pardon since Wagner fighters did not use the incident to stage a provocation. All Ukrainian prisoners were safe, but Wagner could kill them on the spot blaming the Ukrainian side for their deaths. Such a scandal would significantly damage the reputation of the ruling regime in Ukraine as well as of its partners, responsible for the attacks on the Ukrainian POWs; but media provocations are the Kiev\u2019s strategy, not Wagner\u2019s one.<\/p>\n

On May 9, the head of the Wagner PMC, Evgeny Prigozhin claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) struck at the building where the previously captured Ukrainian servicemen were held. The attack was reportedly carried out with the US-made HIMARS MLRS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier, Prigozhin claimed that Wagner fighters stopped taking prisoners during the battle for Bakhmut. However, there were still a certain number of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) who were treated by Wagner forces and were subject to exchange.<\/p>\n

Message from Evgeny Prigozhin:<\/p>\n

After the Wagner PMC stopped taking prisoners of the AFU fighters, we still had a certain number of prisoners who were subject to exchange, prisoners were treated, fed, and so on. HIMARR has just struck at this facility. We will figure out how many prisoners died. In an hour and a half, Alexander Simonov (Russian military reporter) will post on his Telegram channel the result of the strike at the place of detention of prisoners.<\/p>\n

They destroy themselves.<\/strong> In addition, we are calling an investigative team to collect materials in order to make it clear what the blow was struck with, how, from which side and so on.<\/p>\n

We have you fucking dead to rights, dear Ukies!<\/p>\n

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Building holding Ukrainian POWs in Bakhmut targeted by Himars. Click to enlarge<\/p>\n

Later, Evgeny Prigozhin shared o photo of the damaged building, claiming that according to preliminary information, there weer no victims among the POWs.<\/p>\n

Additional information. I personally examined the place where the missiles hit. At first glance, all Ukrainian prisoners are intact. So if you really wanted to destroy them, guys, you need to repeat the strike urgently. You have all the coordinates. The strike is not bad, but the HIMARS don\u2019t work very well, sorry.<\/p>\n

I also have a separate request to the Main Directorate of Intelligence, the AFU and who else is responsible there. Guys, I really ask you not to let the Americans shoot from HIMARS. Do everything yourself because otherwise they will also kill all of you the same way. First, they will strike at the prisoners, then they will hit you on the front edge. Don\u2019t trust the Americans. This is our contention. Why are they meddling?!<\/p>\n

This is not first Ukrainian attack on its own fighters captured by Russian forces. For example, on July 29, 2022, Kiev\u2019s forces shelled a detention center in the village of Elenovka in the DPR with HIMARS MLRS. As a result, dozens of Ukrainian POWs were killed. LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

Probably, this is the way Kiev forces its servicemen to shut down and prevents the POWs from revealing dirty\u00a0 secrets of the AFU.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian HIMARS target buildings holding Ukrainian POWs held captive by Russia in Bakhmut. Fortunately none were killed but why are the Ukrainian forces targeting their own men? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":268709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268711,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268708\/revisions\/268711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}