A mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds unknown buried civilians were found in the forest of recently retaken Izium.
Russian soldiers buried Ukrainian soldiers in a mass grave in the forest, said Ukraine's Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances Oleg Kotenko.
On Wednesday, Oleg Kotenko with a group of Ukrainian servicemen looked around the burial place in a forest in Izium.
He said that the Russians had posted a video of the forest, saying they had buried 17 Ukrainian soldiers.
"On the video we saw more. We hadn't counted yet. But I think there are more or less 25 bodies," said Kotenko.
Kotenko also said that hundreds of Izum residents who died during the Russian occupation were buried in this place with numbers on the crosses instead of names.
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