The UN has announced that it wants to send a team of experts to investigate the mass graves found in
Izyum
, a city in Ukraine that has just been reconquered from pro-Russian forces.
"We have seen reports of possible mass graves with around 400 bodies in Izyum. Our colleagues from the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine intend to conduct an on-site monitoring visit to determine the circumstances of these people's deaths," said the spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Elizabeth Throssell.
Several bodies found at the Izyum mass grave site had ropes around their necks and their hands tied
, the Reuters website reported.
A circumstance that suggests that they may not have been killed in bombing and air strikes.
According to a local politician, "much of Izyum, a city in the Kharkivr region recaptured by Ukrainian forces in recent days, lies in ruins,
up to 80% of the city's infrastructure has been destroyed
,
bodies are still being discovered in the rubble
'' The BBC reports. The head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak tweeted a photo of the mass grave with hundreds of bodies found in Izyum (so far 440) stating that 'Russia is a killer state'.
Ukrainian soldiers are said to be buried in some graves.
Yermak announced more information on the find for today.
Kiev announced that it had discovered
ten torture chambers in the Kharkiv region of
northeastern Ukraine, which was reconquered from Russian forces.
This was stated by the head of the national police Igor Klymenko.
"To date, I can speak of at least ten torture chambers discovered in different locations in the Kharkiv region", including two in the town of Balaklia, reported Klymenko quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine agency.