According to the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, among the exhumed bodies were several corpses of soldiers with their hands tied, as well as entire families, including children. Moscow denies what happened and describes it as “a setup” by Ukraine.
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Euskaraz irakurri: 440 filobi eta 10 torture-ganbera aurkitu dituzte Kharkiv eskualdean berreskuratutako lurraldeetan
kyiv has revealed the discovery of 440 graves of Ukrainian citizens and a dozen alleged torture chambers in the recently liberated territories in the eastern Kharkov region.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has stated that “mass graves are being discovered in Izium after his liberation. The largest burial site has 440 unidentified graves.”
The Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament has explained that among the exhumed bodies there were several corpses of soldiers with their hands tied, as well as entire families, including children.
In addition, the Ukrainian authorities have revealed the existence of at least 10 torture chambers Russians in the recovered territories in the Kharkov region; six of them in Izium and two in Balakleya.
Given this, the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelensky, has stressed the importance of “the world knowing what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to. Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium“.
Moscow, for its part, denies what happened, describing it as “a montage”. The Russians defend that “it was evident that Ukraine would try to repeat Bucha’s script”.
The UN human rights mission in Ukraine intends to visit Izium, in order to determine whether the victims were military or civilian, whether they were killed, died in combat or of natural causes.
Source: Eitb
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