Oleg Kotenko, Ukraine’s commissioner for issues of missing persons under special circumstances, uses his smartphone to record unidentified graves in the recently retaken city of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2022. President Volodymr Zelenskyy said hundreds of civilian adults and children, as well as Ukrainian soldiers, had been found at the mass grave site after being tortured, shot or killed by Russian shelling.
The bodies of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russian forces were discovered one of the war’s largest mass grave sites on the outskirts of the city, one of the first taken by Russian forces after the war started in February.. mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)
