Ukraine labels Russia a 'terrorist state' after Russian embassy tweets call for Ukrainian fighters to be executed by hanging in 'humiliating death'

 

Ukraine has labelled Russia a "terrorist state" after Moscow's UK embassy tweeted that Ukrainian Azov battalion soldiers deserved a "humiliating death" by hanging.

On Friday July 29, reports emerged that more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held by Russia were killed in an airstrike. Russia accuses Ukraine of being responsible for the attack while Ukraine has claimed Russia carried out the attacks on Olenivka prison in Russian-held eastern Ukraine.

 

 

The attack also killed Azov and nationalistic soldiers who Russia has alleged are Nazis, and used that as a basis to launch an invasion of Ukraine, claiming they want to de-nazify Ukraine. Azov troops were forced to lay down weapons in May after fiercely defending for weeks Azovstal, a giant steelworks in the south-eastern port of Mariupol that was eventually captured by Russia.
 

 

After the attack the Russian embassy in the UK tweeted that Azov "militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they're not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death".