After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the village of Zheleznodorozhnoye in the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies found the bodies of four local residents with signs of torture. Criminal proceedings have been launched, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office reported on Facebook.
Three people were buried on the territory of households, another body was buried on the territory of an asphalt plant opposite the railway station. Their fellow villagers told law enforcement officers about the murder of local residents. The village of Zheleznodorozhnoye (another name is Grakovo) was liberated on September 7th.
On September 10, two bodies of civilians with signs of torture were found in the same village. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the village, a local resident told the police that the Russian military had forced him to bury the bodies of two men.
Earlier, the head of the National Police in the Kiev region, Andrei Nebitov, said that the remains of at least two burnt people were found in a garage in Bucha. Local residents claim that the Russian military killed several civilians during the occupation. The world learned about the killings of civilians in Bucha on 2 April. Then the journalists and the Ukrainian military entered the city liberated from Russian occupation and saw the streets strewn with corpses. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs, some died from shots in the back of the head. The Insider talked to the residents of Bucha, and they told how the Russian military shot random passers-by, robbed houses and did not let them leave.
In July, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch published a report on the war crimes of the Russian army in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine – in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. We are talking about torture, abduction and murder of civilians and prisoners of war. Human rights activists talked to dozens of people from Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Skadovsk and ten other cities in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. They described 42 cases where the Russian military may have been involved in the disappearance of civilians, many of whom had previously been tortured.