(11 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++EDIT CONTAINS IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lyman, Donetsk region - 11 October 2022
1. Wide of workers exhuming bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in mass grave in Lyman
2. Workers in protective suits digging
3. Workers at scene
4. Workers removing body wrapped in black plastic sheet from grave
5. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of Donetsk region military administration:
"We have already found more than 50 bodies of soldiers and civilians. We have one long trench or mass grave. We could call it in a different way. We find bodies and parts of bodies here."
6. Close-up of body wrapped in plastic sheet
7. Workers looking at body
8. Body with uniform of Ukrainian soldier
9. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of Donetsk region military administration:
"At the time of our stabilisation operation in Sviatohirsk and Lyman villages, we found more then one instance of torture sites."
10. Worker zipping up body bag
11. Wide of workers carrying body in plastic bag
12. Workers putting body bag on ground next to other bags
13. Wide of cemetery
14. Graves
STORYLINE:
Workers exhumed several bodies, wrapped in black plastic, from a mass burial site in Lyman on Tuesday as Ukrainian authorities pieced together evidence from the more than four months the eastern city spent under Russian occupation.
Ten body bags were lying beside a trench roughly 100 feet long from which authorities said 32 bodies have been exhumed so far.
The bodies were Ukrainian soldiers who were buried together in a mass grave, the head of the Donetsk region's military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said in Lyman on Tuesday.
Associated Press journalists saw forensic investigators lifting a black plastic bag from the trench and unzipping it to reveal a decomposed body in a bloody uniform of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The remains were briefly inspected by investigators, then placed in another body bag and set among several others beside the trench.
Another 22 civilians have been exhumed from individual graves at the burial site, located in a forested area on the outskirts of Lyman, where further exhumations are planned.
Authorities said children had been found among the dead, and that most victims appeared to have died as the result of the heavy shelling that befell the city for months.
They were cautious in describing whether any of the bodies exhumed showed signs of having been executed or subjected to torture, emphasizing that the investigation was still in its early stages.
The city was retaken by Ukrainian forces at the end of September as part of a rapid Ukrainian counteroffensive which retook large swaths of the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson regions from Russian control.
Destruction in Lyman was widespread with large portions of the city completely destroyed.
Ukrainian authorities are now working to restore basic infrastructure and investigate how civilians lived, and died, during the occupation.
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