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[LB] Today, 25 improvised burials have been established in the city, and investigative teams are working there.
by Vera Perun
The police completed investigative actions at the cemetery in Lyman . After the deoccupation, two mass graves were discovered here, in which the bodies of 146 Ukrainians killed by the Russians were found.
This was reported by the police of the Donetsk region.
In one mass burial there were the bodies of civilians, in the other - military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . According to law enforcement officials, the dead were buried in trenches, some of the graves are unmarked.
The exhumation lasted two weeks, and it ended today. The bodies of 111 civilians and 35 military personnel were found.
"To date, 25 spontaneous burials have been established in Liman, and investigative and operational teams are working there. In total, 58 such burials have already been discovered in liberated settlements. Every day, the police receives new reports from residents about buried people. However, access to some of these graves is due to active hostilities not yet," the police informed.
According to law enforcement officers, among the civilians exhumed in the north of Donetsk region: -85 men, 66 women, five children, and the gender of another 10 people has not been determined.
"The most difficult thing ahead is to establish the identity and causes of death of each deceased person. According to preliminary data, people died from mine-explosive and shrapnel wounds as a result of Russian shelling, as well as from natural causes. There are bodies with signs of violent death. The number of people who were executed by Russian soldiers , will be made public after the completion of all examinations," the police added.
The law enforcement officers appealed to the relatives of the victims from the Lyman community to submit biological samples for DNA expertise. This can be done at the nearest police station.
According to law enforcement officers, a total of 166 bodies were exhumed in the de-occupied territories of northern Donetsk region, including five children.
We will remind, now the head of Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko , announced that law enforcement officers found the bodies of 12 civilians killed by the Russians during the occupation: eight - in Lyman, two - in Novoselivka, and two - in Sosnovy.
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