{"id":209752,"date":"2022-09-17T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=209752"},"modified":"2022-09-17T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T09:28:58","slug":"day-205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/day-205","title":{"rendered":"Day 205: more than 450 graves at mass burial site in Izyum, International Photography Awards prize to photo by Azovstal garrison member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Number of victims in Izyum may exceed that of Bucha, government commissioner says<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The number of victims in Izyum, in Kharkiv region may exceed that of Bucha, the Ukrainian Government\u2019s Commissioner on missing persons under special circumstances Oleh Kotenko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Izyum, [Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors] began to exhume bodies from a mass burial site, the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine said. One of the sites was discovered through a video posted to social media by the Russians, Kotenko added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past week, in recaptured areas of Kharkiv region, about 50 bodies of civilians were recovered (outside the mass burial site), head of the National Police Ihor Klymenko said in a news conference.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are nearly 445 graves at the mass burial site [on the outskirts of Izyum]. We\u2019ll work to figure out injury types and causes of death. It will take weeks to do that. (\u2026) The bodies have been buried since March. We\u2019ll exhume and identify each body,\u201d Klymenko added.