Russia has turned Mariupol into a city of nameless graves, Ukraine’s ombudsman says

This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets.

“The mass grave at the Old Crimea cemetery continues to increase. At first, the occupiers buried people there who were mercilessly killed by mass shelling, and now the number of graves is increasing due to the deaths of elderly people who could not leave the city,” Lubinets said. 

These burials reportedly have no names, only numbers. The number of bodies in one grave is also unknown.

Lubinets added that there is no search algorithm for relatives of the deceased either.

“Murderers destroy the traces of their own crimes, and never record them. However, after the liberation of Mariupol by our soldiers, we will be able to assess the scale of the criminal acts of the Russian forces, and we will identify and respectfully bury the dead Mariupol residents. And those guilty of these war crimes will bear the strictest and most just responsibility,” the ombudsman noted. 

• On July 11, Mariupol city official Petro Andryushchenko reported that Mariupol had turned into a "Venice of dirt" after the rain, and houses could collapse due to the washout of foundations.

• On July 10, the head of the central district administration in the Mariupol City Council, Volodymyr Mohylnyi, reported on Espreso TV that the occupiers are forcing Mariupol residents to sign documents that place the blame for the deaths of civilians on Ukraine's Armed Forces. 

• In the temporarily occupied village of Staryi Krym near Mariupol, new places of mass burials were discovered, and compared to May, the number has doubled.

• In July,  the Russian forces exhumed remains from a mass burial in occupied Mariupol.

• The children's ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova is guilty of abducting a large number of Ukrainian children - she took more than 1,300 children from Mariupol.