Bodies of Ukrainians discovered with knees shot 'tells us that people were tortured,' Ukrainian police say

The Associated Press reported that Ukrainian workers this week exhumed bodies from a mass grave.

There was a trail of atrocities left by the Russian soldiers after they left the suburb. According to the AP, authorities have discovered 1,316 bodies since Ukrainian forces regained control of the area.

Workers wearing hazmat suits and masks are going to dig up more bodies in the forest. The victims' hands were tied behind their backs.

The head of the Kyiv regional police said that people were tortured. The people were held captive for a long time and the enemy tried to get information from them.

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According to the AP, a mass grave was located behind a trench for a military vehicle. Two of the seven bodies were bound and had gunshot wounds to the knees.

As Ukrainian authorities announced a criminal investigation into the killings of more than 12,000 people, a mass grave was discovered. Some victims who were found in mass graves as well as victims who were killed by military vehicles are being investigated, according to the national police chief.

It was not known how many of the dead were civilians.

Several mass grave sites, as well as photographic and video evidence of civilian killings and possible war crimes, have been discovered in the wake of Russia's withdrawal from the area.

At least 5,600 cases of alleged war crimes and 500 war crime suspects have been estimated by the prosecutor general.