KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Not less than 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured throughout the preventing for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling, Russia-backed separatists in japanese Ukraine mentioned.

Daniil Bezsonov, a spokesman for the Russia-backed separatists within the Donetsk area, mentioned that at the very least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed and 130 have been injured Friday when Ukrainian shelling hit a jail within the city of Olenivka.

There was no quick remark from the Ukrainian authorities to the report.

The Ukrainian troops have been taken prisoner after the fierce preventing for Ukraine’s Azov Sea port of Mariupol, the place they holed up on the large Azovstal metal mill for months.

The Azov Regiment and different Ukrainian models defended the metal mill for almost three months, clinging to its underground maze of tunnels. They surrendered in Might beneath relentless Russian assaults from the bottom, sea and air.

Scores of Ukrainian troopers have been then taken to prisons in Russian-controlled areas such because the Donetsk area, a breakaway space in japanese Ukraine which is run by Russia-backed separatist authorities.

In different developments:

— Ukrainian officers mentioned Russian forces shelled the nation’s second-largest metropolis, Kharkiv.

Metropolis mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned a central half of the northeastern metropolis was hit, together with a two-story constructing and the next training establishment. Terekhov mentioned the strike occurred simply after four a.m. on Friday.

“The State Emergency Service is already working — they’re finding out the rubble, in search of folks beneath them,” Terekhov mentioned in a Telegram replace.

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