Mass burial in Izyum: UN wants to send mission
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights office said on Friday that it wanted to send a team of its staff to Izyum to inspect the mass grave site, where more than 400 graves were found after the russian occupiers were driven out.
Barrons reports this.
"Our colleagues in Ukraine are following up on these allegations, and they are aiming at organizing a monitoring visit to Izyum to determine the circumstances of the death of these individuals," spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, on Thursday, commenting on the mass burials in the Izyum region, accused russian troops of mass murders.
Trossell called the reports "shocking," adding that the UN team would try to determine whether the dead were civilians or military and to determine the cause of all deaths.
"It is important that the circumstances of the death of people who may be in these mass graves be established," she said.
As reported, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine assumes that the number of Ukrainian citizens who died due to the actions of the russian federation in the territories of the Kharkiv region already liberated from the russians may be significantly higher than in Bucha.
