The Ukrainian president accused Russia of torture and compared the situation revealed so far in Izium, one of the liberated cities in the Kharkov region, with the situation his soldiers found in Bucha after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
“It is premature to give figures on the people who were buried. Investigations are still ongoing,” Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message, according to the Ukrinform portal.
However, according to Zelensky, “there are clear signs of torture and humiliation of the population. In addition, there are indications that Russian soldiers who were in the vicinity of that place fired on those graves simply for fun.”
So far, some 440 graves have been located in the vicinity of Izium, in the area liberated by the Ukrainian troops from Kharkov.
According to Zelensky, Russian troops had committed “atrocities” there comparable to those revealed in Bucha, the city on the outskirts of kyiv, where hundreds of bodies of civilians with signs of torture and apparently executed by train were found in April.
Ukraine, backed by a UN commission and international investigators, accuses Moscow of war crimes in the city outside the capital.
Source: TSF
