A mass grave found in Bucha last April. /
Police say it is “one of the largest cemeteries” discovered in Russian-occupied territories
The horror experienced in Izium comes to light. The Ukrainian police have discovered in the city recently liberated from the Russians, in the Kharkov region, a new mass grave with more than 440 bodies. “It is one of the largest cemeteries” that have been found in territories controlled by the Moscow Army, Serhii Bolvinov, head of the Kharkov Police investigation department, said Thursday.
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, has lamented the news. “We want the world to know what caused the Russian occupation,” he said, after adding that the investigation to clarify the causes of the deaths has already begun and they will have “more verified and clear information tomorrow.”
At the moment, according to the region’s police chief, it is known that the victims were “murdered, some died by artillery fire, others by so-called mine explosive injuries. Some by air strikes.” “Many bodies are still unrecognized, so the cause of death will be established during the investigation,” he stressed.
twenty five soldiers
The bodies will be exhumed and sent for forensic examination. As can be seen in the published photos of the “mass burial”, some bodies have been buried with wooden crosses on the ground while others with “nothing”.
The Commissioner for Missing Persons, Oleg Kotenko, alleged that the Russians themselves published a video of this burial in Izium when they controlled the town, which is why kyiv was looking for the site. He also warned that a mass grave was found with at least 25 Ukrainian soldiers, bringing the number of new burials in the municipality cemetery to more than 460.