{"id":25720,"date":"2022-09-16T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25720"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:36:49","slug":"video-mass-burial-grave-found-in-recaptured-izium-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/16\/video-mass-burial-grave-found-in-recaptured-izium-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Mass burial grave found in recaptured Izium in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press journalists yesterday saw a mass burial site in a forest outside recently-liberated Izium. Amid the trees were hundreds of graves with simple wooden crosses, most of them marked only with numbers. A larger grave bore a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with metal detectors were scanning the site for any hidden explosives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine says it has discovered mass burial site with 400 bodies in recaptured city\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5RSIf33GcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oleg Kotenko, an official with the Ukrainian ministry tasked with reintegrating occupied territories, said videos that Russian soldiers posted on social media indicated there were likely more than 17 bodies in the grave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t counted them yet, but I think there are more than 25 or even 30,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image figure-wide\" data-media-id=\"b084c18fa240445b29502d9c0b71caf47079c363\">\n<div class=\"figure__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gu-image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/b084c18fa240445b29502d9c0b71caf47079c363\/0_49_7239_4664\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances looks at the unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in the recently retaken area of Izium.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"644\" \/><\/div><figcaption><span class=\"element-image__caption\">Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances looks at the unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in the recently retaken area of Izium.<\/span><span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Izium resident Sergei Gorodko said that among the hundreds buried in individual graves were dozens of adults and children killed in a Russian airstrike on an apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>He said he pulled some of them out of the rubble \u201cwith my own hands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Russian troops fled Izium at the weekend. 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Amid the trees were hundreds of graves with simple wooden crosses, most of them marked only with numbers. A larger grave bore a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers. Investigators with metal detectors were scanning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[9436,287,6848,7942,9515,7943,6831,3457,5217,5659,11233,5349,5618,7931,10304,9178,5350,5180,5555,8033,12790],"class_list":["post-25720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-airstrike","tag-children","tag-civilians","tag-izium","tag-killed","tag-mass-burial","tag-missing","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-soldiers","tag-russian-troops","tag-social-media","tag-soldiers","tag-territories","tag-trees","tag-troops","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-video","tag-weekend"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}