A spokesperson for the human rights office of the United Nations The UN said on Friday that it plans to send monitors to a Ukrainian town retaken from Russian forces, where authorities say they have found a mass grave containing 440 bodies.
“They (monitors) intend to go there to try to understand a little more about what might have happened,” Liz Throssell told a press conference in Geneva, without giving a time frame.
She said she could not confirm whether the bodies were contained in a mass grave or a series of individual graves.
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Izium was the target of intense Russian artillery attacks in April. The city, which is close to the border between the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, became an important center for the invading military during five months of occupation.
Ukrainian forces regained control of the city on Saturday, dealing a strategic blow to Russia’s military attack in the east.
Zelensky visited Izium on Wednesday and told journalists he was “shocked” by the number of “destroyed buildings” and “dead people” left after the Russian occupation.
Moscow was using Izium as a launch pad for attacks south into the Donetsk and Kupyansk region, some 30 miles north of Izium, and as a rail hub to resupply its forces.
(From CNN’s Jonny Hallam and Brad Lendon; edited by Miranda Murray)
Source: CNN Brasil
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