Thousands of Ukrainians honour soldiers killed in prison blast and urge government to free prisoners

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Several thousand soldiers and civilians gathered at Kyiv’s Independence Square on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of an explosion that killed more than 50 Ukrainians held by Russia in the Olenivka prison barracks.

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00:00Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians gathered in Kiev to commemorate the second

00:05anniversary of an explosion that killed more than 50 Ukrainians detained by Russia in the

00:10Olenivka prison barracks.

00:13Speakers at the ceremony urged the Ukrainian government to work harder to get soldiers

00:18freed in prisoner exchanges.

00:20The Olenivka explosion was one of the most painful pages in the history of Russia's ongoing

00:26invasion of Ukraine, according to many soldiers.

00:30Russia claimed the explosion was caused by Kiev's forces firing a missile, but increasing

00:35evidence instead suggests that Russia was responsible for setting off the blast.

00:41Two years after, many Ukrainians still want to know exactly how it happened.

00:46The event in the center of Kiev drew together many families, including the mothers, wives

00:51and children of soldiers who were killed in the blast or of those who are currently imprisoned

00:57by Russia.

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