In April, a first one was found with between 3,000 and 9,000 bodies. Since the beginning of the invasion, it is estimated that 25,000 people may have died in this town
The Ukrainian authorities have denounced this Friday the discovery of another mass grave with more than one hundred corpses in the port city of Mariúpol, in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk. The burial is located at number 53 Kievskaya street covered with rubble, which would indicate that the bodies were first buried at some point in the courtyard of the building and then the bombings must have destroyed the building itself.
Before the devastating siege of the Russian troops, until being completely occupied, the inhabitants of the city were forced to bury the dead in the patios of the houses, in parks or in any place at hand. According to the deputy mayor of Mariúpol in statements on his Telegram account, Petro Andriushenko, the bodies found this Friday had been there since the end of February.
“The occupants are raising the rubble nearby, but there is no talk of burying it again. In fact, people still live in basements. The exhumation stopped,” said Andriushenko. In his words, “the occupation authorities were so obsessed with creating an image of rebuilding the city that they have decided not to bury them again.” “Temporary street graves are gradually becoming permanent,” said the municipal official.
According to Amnesty International, in March Russian troops became aware of the presence of civilians in the basement of the Mariupol Drama Theater and deliberately attacked them. There were hundreds of people there trying to protect themselves from the bombs.
The first mass grave found in the area, with several thousand bodies, was in April thanks to images obtained by satellite, in the town of Mangush, located 20 kilometers from Mariúpol. It is estimated that there could be between 3,000 and 9,000 bodies in it. Later, many other graves have been found throughout the city and its surroundings.
The municipality of Mariúpol estimates that in the entire town there have been more than 25,000 deaths since the beginning of the invasion, on February 24. The offensive against Mariúpol began the next day and was already besieged on March 1. Fighting and continuous shelling lasted for two months in the center of the city, but then continued at the Azovstal steelworks until its defenders surrendered in late May.
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