UKRAINE SAYS LARGEST MASS GRAVES DISCOVERED IN KHARKIV, KYIV REGIONS

Thu 16 March 2023:

The largest mass graves of citizens killed during the full-scale war with Russia were discovered in Kharkiv region, namely in Izium, and in Kyiv region.

“The largest mass burials were found in Izium in the Kharkiv region, where 941 people died, and in the Kyiv region, where the bodies of 1,374 people were found,” the head of the investigative department Maksym Tsutskiridze said late Wednesday, according to a statement by the Ukrainian National Police.

According to the statement, Tsutskiridze said that 66,700 criminal proceedings were initiated since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, noting that most of these cases were based on the “violation of the laws and customs of war.”

Tsutskiridze also gave information about the work of the National Police in regions retaken from Russian forces, saying: “There we discover the greatest horrors. These are both mass burials and places of temporary detention of our citizens, including journalists.”

Tsutskiridze said that the police recorded 25 torture chambers and places of imprisonment in the Kharkiv region, 16 in the Kherson region, three in the Kyiv region, and six in other regions.

Tsutskiridze noted that the documentation of Russia’s war crimes was ongoing and the collected evidence would help hold those guilty to account in Ukrainian and international courts.

Now in its second year, the war between Russia and Ukraine has so far killed 8,231 civilians and wounded 13,734 others, according to the latest UN figures.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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