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The Ukrainian soldiers discovered a makeshift cemetery in a forest adjoining the town of Izium, which had recently been reconquered. Ukrainian soldiers were allegedly tortured before being thrown there.
Volunteers, shovels in hand, take a path at the entrance to Izioum. Hundreds of graves, a cross on each of them, were discovered on the edge of a hole in this city in eastern Ukraine, taken back from Russian forces. Lukrainian investigators began on Friday, September 16, to exhume the bodies.
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Questions remain: how were these soldiers killed and who brought them here? In the pockets of their uniforms, identity cards were found. According to investigators, the soldiers died in artillery fights, but not only.
“The first body bore signs of torture. It had a rope around its neck. It was probably strangled”
a Ukrainian investigatorat France Televisions
Another body had, according to these experts, their hands tied behind their backs. Authorities will now attempt to identify the bodies. The Ukrainian authorities are already talking about war crimes. Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky said on television that he wanted to shed light on what happened.
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