A mass burial site was discovered in a forest near the Ukrainian town of Izium, liberated from retreating Russian forces. Authorities were expected to begin recovering bodies Friday. Read the story:
“The necessary procedural actions have already begun there,” he said. “We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to.”
Before exhumation work could begin, investigators with metal detectors were scanning the site for any hidden explosives. Izium resident Sergei Gorodko said that among the hundreds buried in individual graves were dozens of adults and children killed in a Russian airstrike on an apartment building.Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police in the eastern Kharkiv region, told British TV broadcaster Sky News that a pit containing more than 440 bodies was discovered near Izium after Kyiv’s forces swept in. He described the grave as “one of the largest burial sites in any one liberated city.
Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Enin said Thursday night that other evidence found after Kyiv’s sweeping advance into the Kharkiv region included multiple “torture chambers” where both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners were detained “in completely inhuman conditions.”“We have already come across the exhumation of individual bodies, not only with traces of a violent death, but also of torture — cut off ears, etc.
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