Ukrainian authorities have found 440 graves at a mass burial site in Izium, an eastern city recently recaptured from Russian forces, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said in a Twitter post Friday
Earlier Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian and international journalists would be shown the site to see what had been uncovered."We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to," Zelensky said. Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications said on Thursday that some of the graves discovered at Izium were"fresh," and that the corpses buried there were"mostly civilians.
Zelensky speaks to CNN about Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia 01:58Meanwhile, Oleh Kotenko, Ukraine's commissioner for missing persons, said in a Telegram post that search operations for the remains of"fallen heroes" were proceeding cautiously throughout the region."The biggest problem is that some areas are still mined.
'Impossible to occupy our people': Zelensky during visit to liberated territory 02:46Moscow was using Izium as a launching pad for attacks southward into the Donetsk region and Kupyansk, some 48 kilometers to the north of Izium, and as a rail hub to resupply its forces.Zelensky also thanked foreign governments for sending investigators and prosecutors to investigate alleged human rights abuses by occupying forces in Ukraine, adding that all occupied areas would eventually return.
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