Mariupol Mayor Konstantin Ivashchenko said that a mass spontaneous burial was found in the old cemetery in the city. DEA News”.
According to him, this tomb consists of two ditches with a large number of corpses.
“This region was controlled by nationalist units like Azov. “Of course, we’re going to do an investigation that will show how people die,” he said.
Between March and May, about 30 bodies were dumped into the trenches, as an eyewitness from Mariupol told the agency.
“At the beginning of March, I saw a tractor come and dig a hole in the old city cemetery, which is more than 300 years old. That same month, cars came and dropped something in black bags, emptied it, and threw it into the ditch. This is what I’ve seen… I’ve personally seen it three times,” a local resident shared.
Later, the Investigative Committee of Russia announced that the department would document data on the discovery of a mass grave in Mariupol.
Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported To President Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation and the complete liberation of the Mariupol and Azovstal plant from Ukrainian troops.
On February 24, Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The president described the purpose of the operation as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime”. The decision to run the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.