Monday 26 September 2022 04:47 PM Ukraine finds two more mass graves containing hundreds of bodies and probe ... trends now
Ukraine has discovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the the northeastern town of Izyum, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the mass burial sites were found in Izyum in the Kharkiv region - days after the area was liberated by Ukrainian troops having spent four months under Russian occupation.
Ukraine is also probing a third suspected mass burial site located in a shell-damaged and abandoned industrial chicken farm in Kozacha Lopan, a mile away from the Russian border.
It is not known how many bodies lie there - Ukrainian troops and officials speak of 90 to 100 without saying how they know - but the signs of recent violence lie in rubble all around the chicken farm.
Reports of the grim discoveries comes after Ukrainian authorities uncovered a large burial site further south containing the bodies of 447 people next to a cemetery in a wooded area in Izyum.
In total there were 425 civilians buried in the mass graves, including five children, and 22 Ukrainian servicemen.
Ukraine is probing a third suspected mass burial site located in a shell-damaged and abandoned industrial chicken farm in Kozacha Lopan, a mile away from the Russian border. Pictured: Sandbags and the letter Z, the symbol of Russian forces, is seen on a wall at an industrial chicken farm, near which the Russian forces were dug in, near a suspected mass grave in Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv region
A damaged building is seen at an industrial chicken farm, near which the Russian forces were dug in, near a suspected mass grave in Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv region, Ukraine
Pictured: Debris in a bunker at an industrial chicken farm, near which the Russian forces were dug in, near a suspected mass grave in Kozacha Lopan
Ukraine has discovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the the northeastern town of Izyum, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month. Ukraine is also probing a third suspected mass burial site located in a shell-damaged and abandoned industrial chicken farm in Kozacha Lopan, a mile away from the Russian border
Zelensky said that two further mass burial sites have been found in Izyum.
'Today I received more information... They found two more mass graves, big graves with hundreds of people... We're talking about (the) little town of Izium,' Zelensky told CBS News on Sunday, while calling for further sanctions against Russia.
'The sanctions need to continue. These sanctions will have political impact, as well as financial impact.'
Further north, a potential mass grave has been discovered in Kozacha Lopan. De-mining teams have not yet arrived at the site and the suspected burial site has yet to be disturbed.
'I was told by the soldiers who came to our village that they saw a burial place of soldiers, but they didn't specify the number,' said Lyudmyla Vakulenko, head of
