The president of Ukraine accused Russia of torture and compared the situation revealed so far in Izium, one of the liberated cities in the Kharkiv 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 are buried. The investigation is still ongoing,” Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message, according to the Ukrinform portal.
According to Zelensky, “However, there are clear indications of torture and humiliation of the population. Furthermore, there are indications that Russian soldiers who were in the vicinity of that place were shooting at those graves just for fun.”
So far, about 440 graves have been found near Izium, in the area liberated from Kharkov by Ukrainian troops.
According to Zelensky, Russian troops there committed “atrocities” similar to those in Bucha, the city on the outskirts of Kiev, where hundreds of civilian bodies with signs of torture were found in April and apparently executed by train.
Ukraine, backed by a UN commission and international investigators, accuses Moscow of war crimes committed in that city on the outskirts of the capital.
Source: DN
