Ninety-nine percent of the bodies exhumed showed signs of violent death, the head of Ukraine’s regional administration said of the mass grave site discovered after Kiev forces liberated the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium.
“Among the bodies that were exhumed today, 99 percent showed signs of violent death,” Oleg Synegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, said on social media.
“There are more than 1,000 Ukrainian citizens tortured and killed in the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region,” he added.
Otherwise, the head of the national police of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, said that “torture chambers” were found in the liberated towns and villages of this region.