“Now 63 bodies have been found in the Kherson region, but we should know that the search has just begun, many more prisons and burial places are expected to be excavated,” Ukraine’s Interfax news agency said quoting Denisz Monastirsyy on Ukrainian television. on Thursday.
On November 9, Army General and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops to the left bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson County, which has been annexed to Ukraine.
Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have uncovered 436 cases of war crimes in the region since the Russian occupation. Eleven places of detention were discovered, in four of which prisoners were tortured.
The Interior Minister stressed that the exhumation of the dead will continue and cases of torture will be registered.
In a statement to the New York Times, Andriy Kovalenko, prosecutor of Kherson’s regional prosecutor’s office, said testimony had been collected on the detention of 800 Russian prisoners in the region. These revealed that prisoners are often abused with electric shocks, beaten and strangled.
According to Ukrainian and international investigations, war crimes have been committed in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian troops. Moscow denies the atrocities against the civilian population.
Mass graves have also been found in other areas formerly occupied by Russian troops, including some with signs of torture on civilian victims.
(MTI)
