The information about the mass graves in Izyum is “a lie,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He is quoted by the RIA Novosti propaganda agency.
“This is the same scenario as in Bucha. According to one scenario, everything develops. This is a lie. This is a lie and, of course, we will stand up for the truth in this whole story.
On September 16, in Izyum, liberated from the Russian Federation, the bodies of killed local residents and Ukrainian soldiers buried in the forest were exhumed . According to the prosecutor of the Kharkiv region Oleksandr Filchakov, a total of 445 graves of civilians and one mass grave with military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were found. He stated that in the first grave opened, a rope was found around the neck of the deceased, and fractures were found on the limbs of the corpse. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky proposed the creation of a special tribunal to bring to justice those responsible for these killings.
In June, Important Stories identified eight Russian military personnel operating in Bucha. Journalists were able to obtain these data by analyzing outgoing calls from the mobile phone of a local resident Ivan Skibe. Using the phone found by a local resident, it was possible to find out that Russian servicemen Alexei Vishnevsky, Ilya Saburov, Maxim Grushevsky, Radiy Zaburin, Mikhail Guryanov, Daniil Konovalov, Alexander Popov and Dmitry Antonnikov called Ivan Skibe to Russia during the occupation of Bucha. The atrocities in Bucha became known in early April, when the Ukrainian military entered the city liberated from Russian occupation and saw corpses on the streets. Some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs, and many of the victims were shot in the back of the head.
