More than 120 bodies exhumed by Donetsk police in de-occupied territories
Excavations continue at mass burial sites in the Estuary. During a week of painstaking work, the police recovered the bodies of 56 people. Measures are being taken to identify the dead and establish the causes of their death.
In the liberated settlements, the police found 35 burial sites. Three of them are massive. One — in Svyatogorsk, where 7 people were buried (6 women and 1 person). Others are in the cemetery in Liman. Several dozen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are buried in the mass grave, and more than a hundred civilians rest in the second location. People were buried with whole families.
Work on the cemetery continues continuously, despite bad weather: rain erodes the soil. Investigative actions are conducted simultaneously at both locations. Alternately, three investigative and operational teams work there at once.
To date, the bodies of 22 civilians and 34 military personnel have been recovered in Liman. Police officers detect both signs of natural death and violent actions. There were injuries received as a result of shelling or torture - the investigation will establish. Corpses are sent for examination, according to the results of which the causes of death of citizens will be established.
In total, more than 120 bodies were found in the de-occupied territories, of which 64 were civilians. Among the dead civilians - 32 men, 29 women, the gender of three more people has not been established.
National Police of Ukraine
