(16 Sep 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Izium, Kharkiv region - 15 September 2022
1. Wide of graves with unknown residents of Izium who died during the Russian occupation
HEADLINE: ONLY ON AP: Mass graves found in Izium
2. Wide of wooden crosses
ANNOTATION: A mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of unknown buried civilians were found in the forest of recently retaken Izium.
3. Sign with number 258 on a cross
4. Wide of mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers with a wood cross
5. Ukrainian serviceman with a metal detector
6. Sign on wood cross reading (Russian): "AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine). 17 people. Izium city. From morgue."
ANNOTATION: A mass grave bore a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers. It was surrounded by hundreds of individual graves.
7. Ukrainian serviceman searching for mines with metal detector in a mass grave
ANNOTATION: One soldier said uncovering the bodies could be dangerous.
8. Close of metal detector
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Nom de guerre 'Kuvalda', Ukrainian serviceman:
++SOUNDBITE PARTLY OVERLAID WITH THE FOLLOWING SHOTS++
"If the metal detector beeps on the place where our brothers are lying, that means that the enemy may have left something like an explosive substance, a grenade that could be thrown (into a grave)."
10. Ukrainian serviceman searching for mines with metal detector in a mass grave
11. Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances Oleg Kotenko looking at the graves
12. Ukrainian serviceman wraps graves with tape
ANNOTATION: Izium residents confirmed that people who died during the Russian occupation were buried in the forest.
13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances:
"We found this mass grave because the Russian soldiers, fascists, posted a video."
14. Wide of graves with crosses
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances:
++SOUNDBITE PARTLY OVERLAID WITH THE PREVIOUS AND FOLLOWING SHOTS++
"We think, according to the words which were written here (on the cross on one of the graves), that there are 17 bodies, but on the video, there are more. We hadn't counted them yet, but I think there are more than 25 or even 30 (bodies). Maybe that's not the only grave in this cemetery. We will work on it. And I think we will find everyone who died here."
16. Wide of graves
17. Sign with number 196 on a cross
18. Wide of graves
19. Close of cross reading (Russian) "Here rests Pohuliaiko Vladimir Mykhailovich 13 July 1962-17 May 2022"
ANNOTATION: Kotenko said the bodies would be exhumed and their DNA examined.
20. Plastic bag on the ground
21. Wide of graves
ANNOTATION: Russia's forces left Izium and other parts of the Kharkiv region last week amid a stunning Ukrainian counteroffensive.
22. Close of cross with sign reading (Russian): "Ivanenko Nikolai"
23. Various of crosses
STORYLINE:
A mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of unknown buried civilians were found in the forest of recently retaken Izium.
A mass grave bore a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers. It was surrounded by hundreds of individual graves.
One soldier said uncovering the bodies could be dangerous.
Izium residents confirmed that people who died during the Russian occupation were buried in the forest.
Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, said the bodies would be exhumed and their DNA examined.
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