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Russia's Defense Ministry on Friday claimed that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war ended up killed right after U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Methods (HIMARS) were utilized by Ukrainian armed forces to strike occupied territory in the Donbas, and strike a Russian detention heart.

A Ukrainian defense official denied the promises and advised WHD News Digital it was probable a "brutal execution of POWs."

The official claimed they have "99 % certainty that this was a Russian strike."

n this May 23, 2011, file photo a launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Wash. 

n this May possibly 23, 2011, file picture a start truck fires the Substantial Mobility Artillery Rocket Method (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during battle training in the substantial desert of the Yakima Schooling Center, Wash.  (Tony Overman/The Olympian via WHD)

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Ukraine’s protection ministry is still gathering information and facts on the incident and the official was not able to verify the quantity of captive Ukrainian troopers killed or wounded in the strike.

Russia’s defense ministry claimed some 75 Ukrainian troopers ended up also wounded just after a missile strike strike "a pre-demo detention middle in the spot of the settlement of Olenivka, wherever Ukrainian armed forces prisoners of war, together with fighters from the Azov battalion, are staying held."

8 detention center staff members were being allegedly "hurt to various degrees of severity."

In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Ukrainian servicemen stand in font of a Russian serviceman after they leaved the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.

In this photograph taken from movie produced by the Russian Defense Ministry Push Company on Wednesday, Could 18, 2022, Ukrainian servicemen stand in font of a Russian serviceman after they leaved the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Russian Protection Ministry Push Assistance by using WHD)

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Russian-backed separatist leader Denis Pushilin reportedly instructed Interfax that the detention middle was positioned in the frontline city of Olenivka and housed about 190 detainees. 

The Armed Solutions of Ukraine launched a assertion and claimed Russia purposefully hit the detention center with the intention of covering up "the torture of prisoners and shootings carried out there" and spreading propaganda by accusing "Ukraine of committing ‘war crimes’."

In this photo provided by Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard Press Office, an Azov Special Forces Regiment's serviceman, injured during fighting against Russian forces, poses for a photographer inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. 

In this picture presented by Azov Unique Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian Countrywide Guard Press Place of work, an Azov Unique Forces Regiment's serviceman, injured through combating against Russian forces, poses for a photographer inside of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.  (Dmytro 'Orest' Kozatskyi/Azov Distinctive Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian Countrywide Guard Press Place of work via WHD)

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"In accordance to the commander of the Missile Forces and Artillery of the Land Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not start missile and artillery strikes in the area of Olenivka settlement," the statement reported.

The Common Staff of the Armed Forces stated that thanks to large-precision weapons supplied by Western allies, Ukrainian artillery troops are equipped to conduct "extremely exact strikes."