Fresh Evidence Emerges of Alleged Russian Atrocities in Once-Occupied Ukraine
IZYUM, Ukraine–In the early-August heat, Vitaliy Boroviy fished a pair of bloated bodies from the river bisecting this eastern Ukrainian town. From their bound hands, the municipal funeral director surmised that they had been detained, tortured and killed by occupying Russian forces.
Mr. Boroviy arranged their burial as best he could, interring them in a pine forest along with more than 400 others who perished during Russia’s five-month occupation, which Ukrainian forces brought to an end this month.
When that mass burial site was uncovered by Ukrainian authorities on Sept. 15, it was unclear who most of the victims were and how they died. Since then, a picture has emerged from residents of a town subject to escalating torture and killings as Ukrainian forces closed in this summer.
Mr. Boroviy, a lanky and soft-spoken 55-year-old, said he buried so many bodies in Izyum that he ran out of wood to make new coffins and wrapped some of them in blankets. On separate occasions, Russian soldiers ordered him to collect two bodies from wooded areas, where he suspects they were dumped after being tortured.
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