The grave in the trench cannot be buried for the third month
The New York Times published a photo of a mass grave on the outskirts of frontline Lysychansk, where the bodies of civilian dead Ukrainians have been buried for three months.
“The mass grave on the outskirts of this eastern Ukrainian city remains unburied. The bodies in it smell of death in the warm summer wind. The dead are civilians who died as a result of shelling in recent months in the cities of Lysychansk, Severodonetsk and Rubizhne, “the newspaper writes.
they could be buried.
The military says the bodies have been buried since April, not buried due to a lack of equipment, which is all involved in digging trenches.
Russian forces are solidifying control in Sievierodonetsk, where civilian casualties are mounting and trenches have become graves for soldiers.https: //t.co/jy2Rhu0uq1
– The New York Times (@nytimes) June 17, 2022
The publication notes that it is impossible to determine the number of civilians killed in Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, as fighting continues in this area.
In particular, in Lysychansk, despite all the threats, about 40,000 residents out of the pre-war 100,000 remained. Some remain because of the need to take care of older relatives who flatly refused to leave, and some do not want to leave home and pets, which are not always possible to take with them.
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The day before, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, Serhiy Haidai, said that Ukraine was negotiating the evacuation of people hiding at the Azot plant from Severodonetsk. According to him, there are about 500 residents of Severodonetsk, 40 of them are children . At the same time, the Nitrogen shelter is not as strong as in Mariupol's Azovstal.
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