The New York Times (NYT) published a photo of a mass grave on the outskirts of the city of Lisichansk, Luhansk region. According to the Ukrainian military, it contains about 300 bodies of civilians who died in recent months as a result of shelling in Lisichansk, Severodonetsk and Rubizhne.
The bodies of the inhabitants were dumped in bags into an unburied trench, because there were no relatives who could take them and bury them. The military has been burying the dead in this place since April, and so far they cannot bury the grave, since all the equipment is aimed at building trenches.
Earlier, the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (GSChS) reported that four people were killed as a result of a Russian airstrike on Lysychansk. Information about the strike was confirmed by the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai.
On June 13, another mass grave of civilians was discovered near Bucha, Andrey Nebytov, the head of the Kiev region police, said: “The Russians tortured and then brutally executed 7 civilians with headshots. This mass grave of executed civilians was found today at the positions of Russian soldiers near the village of Mirotskoye, Buchansky district. Many of the victims had their hands tied and shot through their knees. Now we are working on the identification of the dead. These are the next sadistic crimes of the Russian army in the Kyiv region! For every destroyed life, for the pain and suffering of Ukrainians, for the destruction of our cities and towns, the invaders must answer.”
In total, more than 1.2 thousand killed local residents were found in the Kiev region after the retreat of the Russian army. For example, in Bucha, liberated on April 2, the Russian military left behind streets littered with corpses. Some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs, some died from shots in the back of the head. The Insider spoke to the residents of Bucha, and they told how the Russian military shot random passers-by, robbed houses and did not let them leave. In May, The New York Times published new evidence of the killing of residents of Bucha by the Russian military. The publication published a video that proves that Russian soldiers executed eight unarmed residents of the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region on March 4.
