Remains of six people are found in house yard in Kherson region

The First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yevhen Yenin, said this on the air of the telethon.

“In the village of Pravdyno, Kherson district, a burial was discovered in the yard of a private house, where the remains of six people were found with traces of torture, gunshot wounds, etc. The discovered corpses were exhumed and sent for a forensic examination,” Yevhen Yenin noted. 

He also informed that, in total, during the occupation of the region, about 700 bodies were transported to morgues, and almost 100 of them have injuries due to combat operations.

“Another 36 graves were found in the cemetery in the settlement of geologists in Kherson. There is a mass burial site there, where there are also the bodies of servicemen of Ukraine's Armed Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces,” the message says. 

The First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs emphasized that from the first days of the full-scale invasion, the Russians ignored the norms of international law: “The Russian forces were simply mad. And quite often they committed violence against civilians, flaunting it, sending photos and videos to their relatives in Russia, and posting them on social networks.”

Specialists have removed more than 450 bodies of the dead from mass burials in the Kherson region: about 200 bodies of men, slightly more bodies of women, more than 20 bodies of soldiers, seven children, and the remains of 12 people whose sex, age and identity cannot be determined.

“Preliminarily, it has been established that among these people there are those who died of violent death: gunshot wounds and explosive injuries. Signs of torture were found in at least 40 people,” Yevhen Yenin emphasized.

• 436 bodies were exhumed in de-occupied Izium, most of them had signs of violent death, and 30 - traces of torture.

• In October, about 200 civilians, including children, were exhumed in Lyman. They were buried in separate graves, the military - in a trench 40 meters long.

• In November, the BBC reported that more than 1,500 new graves had been dug at a mass burial site near occupied Mariupol.