Moscow. In Mariupol, between 3,000 and 9,000 civilians are feared to be buried in a mass grave in Manhush, a village held by Russian soldiers. This strategic port is located less than 20 km from the city. Ukrainian officials have given this information. According to the report of Ukraine Pravda, 200 mass graves have appeared in satellite photos of the company Maxar. Maxer said an analysis of these sites showed that mass graves were excavated in mid-March and were continuously enlarged.
According to the report, “the Russians dug new trenches on the outskirts of Mariupol and filled them with dead bodies every day throughout April.”
Mariupol city council sources have told that in such graves the bodies are kept one after the other.
Also on Thursday, Maxar Technologies said that photographs showed the cemeteries were expanded, consisting of four sections of linear rows about 85 meters long, the BBC reported.
Local estimates put the number of civilians killed by Russian forces in Mariupol at 22,000.
In a statement, Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko said, “The worst war crime of the 21st century has been committed in Mariupol. This is the new Babylonian man. Hitler killed Jews, Roma people and Slavs at that time. Now, ( Russian President Vladimir Putin is destroying the Ukrainian people.
The Babylon Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany’s forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
According to the city council, Russian soldiers have dug several mass graves in Manhush and are driving trucks to transport the bodies of slain Mariupol residents.
By mid-March, Mariupol municipal services had buried about 5,000 people throughout the city and its outskirts.
Earlier this month, Maxar’s photographs of the city of Bucha outside Kyiv showed bodies of civilians in an alley nearly two weeks before Russians returning from northern Ukraine.
Butcha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said at least 300 civilians had been killed in the city.
—AnyTV News
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