There was a mass burial site in the city of Izyum.

There were mass graves discovered in the city after it was taken back from Russia, according to the defense ministry.

According to the Center for Strategic Communications, there was a mass giving with more than 400 bodies. Some of the graves were new and the dead were mostly civilians.

It said that the Russian invaders enacted the same brutal terror.

Dozens of wooden crosses were found in a forest outside the city in the eastern Kharkiv region.

Wooden crosses in a forest are shown in an image shared by Ukraine's Defense Ministry that it said showed a mass grave in Izyum.
An image shared by Ukraine's Defense Ministry that it said showed a mass grave in Izyum.
Ukraine Defense Ministry

The defense ministry and communications center shared pictures of crosses between trees.

cessary procedures have started. All bodies will be exhumed and forensically examined.

Russia is a country that murders people. He said that a state sponsor of terrorism.

All of the victims are not known.

Sky News reported that Serhii Bolvinov, the chief police investigator for the Kharkiv region, said that some of them may have died from shelling.

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Bolvinov said that some died because of the airstrikes.

A lot of bodies have not been identified.

This is a crime against humanity for me. He said that it shouldn't be like that in a civilized world in the future.

The village of Izyum, with a population of around 45,000 people, was among the many towns and villages that were captured by the Ukrainian army.

Russian forces had been in the city for five months.

Zelenskyy met with soldiers on the front when he visited Izyum on Wednesday.

He compared the suffering in the city to the atrocities committed by Russian forces in the southern port city of Mariupol.

Russia leaves death everywhere, according to Zelenskyy. It needs to be held accountable for that. Russia must be held accountable for this war. Everything will be done for this.

There were evidence of war crimes in Mariupol.

The UN is investigating possible war crimes in the area, and the US Secretary of State said in April that there was a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape.