Monday 19 September 2022 11:23 AM Russia accuses Ukraine of LYING about mass graves found in liberated city of ... trends now
The Kremlin said that reports mass graves were found in the formerly Russian-controlled city of Izyum in eastern Ukraine were fabrications.
'These are lies,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, adding Moscow 'will stand up for the truth in this story'.
Last week, some 450 graves were discovered in forests outside Izyum after the strategic city was recaptured from the Russians by Ukrainian troops.
Prosecutors have documented the atrocities, which included torture chambers as well as mass graves. They have so far exhumed more than 60 bodies – of both soldiers and civilians – from a burial site thought to contain at least 450 graves in a forest on the edge of Izyum in Kharkiv
Workers exhume bodies from graves in Izyum, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine.
Kharkiv and surrounding areas have been the target of heavy shelling since February 2022, when Russian troops entered Ukraine starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis
For Peskov it was 'the same scenario as in Bucha', a town outside the capital Kyiv where dozens of bodies in civilian clothing were found in the streets after Russian troops left.
Ukrainian officials said 99 percent of the exhumed bodies showed signs of violent death.
Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors have released images and details of a Russian 'torture chamber' they found in a newly liberated village.
Officials said the grim basement in Kozacha Lopan, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, was where Russian forces tormented military and civilian prisoners.
One image showed a Soviet-era military telephone which they claimed was used as the power source for a yellow wire which was connected to metal clips to electrocute prisoners during interrogation.
In recent days, testimonies have emerged from Ukrainians saying they were electrocuted, burned and beaten by Russian soldiers demanding the names and addresses of senior military
