InformNapalm explains how Russia planned mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners in Olenivka

This is stated in the preliminary conclusion of the international OSINT-intelligence community InformNapalm.

"1) It was not a GMLRS missile (used in the HIMARS surface-to-air missile system - Ed.). 2) It was a thermobaric weapon. 3) Russia arranged it and did it as always incompetently," the investigation notes.

Olenivka is located approximately 15 km from the front line. Hitting the target so close with the rare and expensive long-range GMLRS missiles, when you can use 105 mm artillery shells, which cost about 0.4% of a GMLRS missile, makes no sense.

Olenivka was for years a well-known Russian camp for Ukrainian prisoners of war and a concentration camp, and before that a penal colony for decades. It cannot be considered a classified target.

"Russia never wanted to return the defenders of Azovstal to Ukraine, where they would be greeted as heroes... At the same time, HIMARS gave Ukrainians hope, so Russia decided to stage the killing of prisoners of war as if they were killed by a GMLRS missile, in order to drown out the joy of Ukrainians from HIMARS", says the material from InformNapalm.

Before that, the Russians did the same thing with the French howitzer Caesar provided to Ukraine: they fired at the city of Donetsk, and then accused Ukrainian gunners of working with Caesar.

Thanks to the pictures released by the Russians, we can see the effects of a GMLRS missile hitting a building: walls ripped open, concrete ceilings crushed, rebar torn to pieces, everything smashed and scattered.

"If we compare the real GMLRS strike with the staged one in Olenivka, the explosion there was so weak that the beds did not even move a centimeter, not a single brick fell out, the steel pillar was not damaged, but the fire caused huge damage," InformNapalm points out.

But the final proof that it was not a GMLRS missile is the absence of an impact crater in Olenivka.

GMLRS M31 missiles strike the target at a 90 degree angle at Mach 4+ to shatter the roof and detonate the interior, as well as to destroy the secret guidance system, GPS components and sensors at the end of the missile. The tin roof of the building in Olenivka is too weak to break it and fire in the middle with a GMLRS rocket.

Therefore, if a GMLRS missile hit, there should be a shock-detonation crater in the middle of the room. And he is not there.

Also, M31 GMLRS rockets contain 51 pounds of PBX-109, a mixture of 64% RDX and 20% aluminum and 16% HTPB/IPDI plastic fillers. Aluminum is used to enhance the effect of the explosion, but it is not a thermobaric weapon that burns the target.

If a GMLRS rocket had hit Olenivka, there would have been no burnt people inside. An explosion would tear everyone apart, not burn them alive. Thermobaric weapons, on the other hand, burn victims from the outside, leaving the bodies intact.

"Olenivka was not hit by a GMLRS missile. Russia used thermobaric weapons to incinerate POWs in their sleep. The damage to the building and casualties from the fire, as well as the absence of an impact crater and the absence of blast damage, confirm this. This was a deliberate killing, just like Katyn," believe in the InformNapalm community.

In Katyn, let's recall, the USSR gathered Polish officers captured at the beginning of the Second World War and purposefully exterminated them.

"The Russians probably locked the doors, shot inside through the windows with RPO-A Shmel or MRO-A thermobaric ammunition, and then waited until everyone was dead. Both have been in service with the DPR since 2014," InformNapalm's preliminary conclusion concluded.