Defense

Shelling kills 53 Ukrainian POWs, separatist group claims

By Victor I. Nava
Published July 29, 2022 10:08am ET
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Shelling kills 53 Ukrainian POWs, separatist group claims
FILE - Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol during shelling, in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling. | (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

At least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war were reportedly killed by artillery blasts on Friday that Russian-backed separatists blamed on Ukrainian forces.

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