Mass exhumations at Ukraine's Izyum forest graves site
In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.
Izyum, invaded in April, was used by Russia as a key military hub to supply its forces from the east. The burial ground - beside an existing cemetery - contains row after row of graves, marked by crude wooden crosses. Officials say one grave contained around 20 soldiers, some with their hands bound and one with a noose around his neck. The body of a man in military uniform was exhumed and zipped into a white body bag.
A woman who lived opposite the forest told us Russians troops had kept locals away from the cemetery.
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