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Ukraine and Russia trade blame for attack killing Mariupol prisoners

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Updated July 29, 2022 at 11:43 a.m. EDT|Published July 29, 2022 at 10:33 a.m. EDT
The aftermath of an attack on a detention center in eastern Ukraine that killed more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war on July 29. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
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KYIV, Ukraine — Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war from the famed Azov Regiment were killed Friday in a strike against their detention center in the Russian-occupied eastern region of Donbas, but it was unclear how the attack happened or who carried it out.

At least 53 POWs were killed and 75 injured in the strike, according to Darya Morozova, an official for the Donetsk People’s Republic, the pro-Russian breakaway region where the prison is located.