Dozens of bodies with signs of torture discovered in Kherson: Ukraine
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Ukrainian investigators say they have found at least 63 bodies in Kherson showing signs of torture after the Russian withdrawal from the region.
The dozens of alleged victims echo the recapture of Bucha and areas around Kyiv, where Russia is accused of killing hundreds of civilians and burying them in mass graves. Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky says investigators found 436 cases of war crimes in the region, including four facilities where torture took place.
“Now, 63 bodies have been discovered in the Kherson region, but we have to understand that the search has just begun, so many more dungeons and burial sites will be discovered,” Monastyrsky told Ukrainian television, according to Reuters.
“At the moment the investigators are examining them and reporting all the cases of torture. They are also exhuming the bodies of those who were killed,” he added.
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Ukrainian children train on May 9, 2022, near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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Emergency workers move a body during an exhumation in the newly recovered area of Izium, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022.
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Ukrainian troops liberated Kherson last week after the Russian withdrawal. The development saw many instances of joyful reunion between Ukrainian soldiers and their families trapped in the previously occupied region.
However, there were signs that the Russian occupation was violent.
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“Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, the bodies of both civilians and military personnel are being found,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week. “In the Kherson region, the russian army he left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where he was able to enter”.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a kindergarten building damaged during a Russian missile attack in the village of Novooleksandrivka, Kherson region, Ukraine, on November 9, 2022.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes a surprise visit to Kherson on November 14, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson comes just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin held an elaborate ceremony to annex it and other regions of Ukraine. Russian forces have suffered numerous setbacks on the ground since September, when Ukraine launched a successful counteroffensive.
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However, Putin’s tactics have changed with the new reality, and the Russian military has begun targeting Ukraine’s energy and water infrastructure with missiles. The avalanche threatens to leave Ukrainians without reliable heat and water during the country’s bitter winter months.
