“99%” of the bodies exhumed on Friday in Izium, a city in eastern Ukraine recently recaptured from the Russians, “showed signs of violent death,” regional governor Oleg Synegoubov said in the evening.
Ukrainian human rights official Dmytro Loubinets, for his part, indicated on Telegram that “probably (there were) more than 1,000 Ukrainian citizens tortured and killed in the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region.”
“There are several bodies with their hands tied behind their backs and one person is buried with a rope around his neck. Obviously these people were tortured and executed,” Oleg Synegoubov said on Telegram, accompanying his message with photos of hundreds of graves found nearby. of Izioum. .
Children among the victims
According to him, “450 bodies of civilians with traces of violent death and torture were buried” at this site discovered by the Ukrainian authorities. Hours earlier, an AFP journalist had been able to see at least one body with its hands tied with a rope in the same place, without being able to immediately establish whether it was a civilian or a soldier, since the body was too damaged. On Telegram, Oleg Synegoubov said that “there were also children” among the bodies exhumed during the day by the “200 agents and experts” who worked at the site.
“The bodies will be sent for autopsy to determine the exact cause of death,” he said. And to add: “Each death will be investigated and become evidence of Russia’s war crimes in international courts.” “The scale of the crimes committed (by the Russians) in Izium is enormous,” she said, denouncing “a bloody and brutal terror.”
Source: BFM TV
