Ukrainian emergency workers on Saturday dug up more bodies from a wooded burial site in territory recently recaptured from Russia
Ukraine says hundreds are buried at the site discovered this week, including at least 17 Ukrainian servicemen found in a mass grave on Friday and others who may be civilians buried in individual graves marked with flimsy wooden crosses.
Moscow has not commented on the discovery of the graves. It regularly denies committing atrocities in the war or targeting civilians. Clutching a neatly written list of names and numbers, resident Volodymyr Kolesnyk stepped between graves looking for relatives he said were killed in an airstrike on an apartment building shortly before the town fell in April, as the invaders swept through the northeastern region of Kharkiv.Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synehubov on Friday said he had been aware of mass deaths when shells hit a five-storey apartment block shortly before the Russian occupation.
“They buried the bodies in bags, without coffins, without anything. I was not allowed here at first. They said it was mined and asked to wait. And there was a lot of them in the woods, so it was scary to come here,” Kolensk told Reuters.
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