Four bodies of civilians were found with “torture marks” in the Ukrainian village of Zaliznytchne, in the Kharkiv region, recently recovered by kyiv from Russian forces, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office announced today.
According to the same source, the four bodies were found on Sunday and “showed signs of torture.”
“Three of them had been buried on family properties, the other had been buried on the land next to the asphalt factory, in front of the town’s train station,” said the Public Ministry on the social network Facebook.
“According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the victims were killed by the Russian army during the occupation of the village,” he continued.
According to the same source, it was the inhabitants who “contacted the forces of order and [ucranianas] and reported that Russian soldiers had killed his fellow citizens” after the village was handed over to Ukrainian control last week.
Ukraine has in recent days announced major territorial gains in the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia in the northeast of the country and has been partially under Russian occupation since the start of the war more than six months ago.
In another town in the region, Grakove, whose level of destruction attests to the violence of the fighting, the Prosecutor’s Office had also indicated that it had discovered the bodies of two civilians with signs of torture and bullet wounds in the neck. .
Russian troops were accused of many atrocities during their occupation of the outskirts of kyiv, especially in Bucha, from where they withdrew at the end of March and where the Ukrainian authorities later found hundreds of bodies of civilians with signs of torture and execution, with their hands tied and shot in the head, in mass graves, scattered in the streets and in charred heaps in the streets.
A scenario that Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, described in April as “the tip of the iceberg” of the brutality of the current Russian invasion of the country.
These alleged war crimes are already being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
For its part, Moscow has denied any crime and has assured that it is a staging.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than seven million to European countries-, according to the latest UN data. , which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the generality of the international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia. political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented 5,827 dead civilians and 8,421 wounded as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which entered today at 201, highlighting that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
