Mass grave found in liberated Lyman
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – FRIDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2022, 22:08
Two burial sites were found in the liberated city of Lyman in Donetsk Oblast. One of them consists of individual civilian graves and the other is a mass grave.
Source: Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; Yevhen "Marshal" Zhukov, Head of the Patrol Department of the National Police of Ukraine, on Telegram
Quote from Kyrylenko: "Two burial sites have been discovered in Lyman. One of them consists of nearly 200 graves. According to early reports, these are individual graves where civilians are buried.
At another site there is a mass grave; according to preliminary information, it may contain both military personnel and civilians. Their exact number has yet to be determined.
Law enforcement officers are currently inspecting the sites and will soon begin exhuming [the bodies]."
Details: Kyrylenko asked media and social media users to refrain from commenting on the number of people buried at the sites or on the causes of their deaths until the experts’ final conclusions.
Kyrylenko also reported that 21 civilians killed during the Russian occupation were found at a municipal cemetery in Sviatohirsk.
"During the battles for Sviatohirsk and [the city’s] occupation, the dead were buried in the streets and in courtyards. All the bodies reburied today were identified and given proper burials," he noted.
Earlier, Yevhen "Marshal" Zhukov, Head of the Patrol Department of the National Police of Ukraine, said that a mass burial containing 180 bodies was found in Lyman.
"Entire families are buried in mass graves; there are also children born between 2019 and 2021 buried there," he wrote.
Previously: On 5 October, media reported that more than 50 graves of civilians were found in the liberated city of Lyman in Donetsk Oblast. Not all of those who were buried have been identified; some grave markers were simply numbers.
Background:
- On the afternoon of 2 October, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the mopping-up operation in Lyman (Donetsk Oblast) from Russian invaders was over.
- On 5 October, Zelenskyy showed what the city of Lyman looks like after its liberation from the Russian occupiers.
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