Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda cited Russian media and social media accounts that posted a video from the scene, showing a damaged car and several people trying to help the driver.
Russian Telegram channels reported that Sergey Yevsiukov, the former head of the Olenivka prison, had been killed in the explosion, while his wife was hospitalized in serious condition after losing her legs. These reports have not been confirmed by Ukrainian or Russian authorities.
In July of this year, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it had filed a criminal report on Yevsiukov and his former deputy for the killing of an estimated 53 Ukrainian prisoners at the DPR Volnovakha colony.
According to the General Staff of the Ukraine Armed Forces, the Russian blew up the barracks where the prisoners were held in July 2022 in order to cover up torture and murder.
Some 70 other prisoners were seriously wounded in the incident.
The camp included defenders of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, and, according to the authorities in Kyiv, it was a deliberate act of terror organized by the Russians. The Ukrainians also claimed to have intercepted communications indicating the guilt of the Russians, including mercenaries from the Wagner Group.
