Grim satellite images show Russia digging 'mass graves' near besieged city of Mariupol
dailystar.co.ukUkrainian city of Mariupol reveal what appear to be “mass graves” containing the bodies of at least 200 people.The images, obtained from US mapping company Maxar Technologies, back up allegations made by Mariupol’s mayor Vadym Boychenko.Boychenko claimed that Russian troops were burying Ukrainian civilians by the hundred in order to cover up what he called “military crimes”.He added that bodies had been left unburied for some time, but then “started disappearing from the streets”."More than 20,000 civilians — women, children, elderly people — died on the streets of our city from enemy artillery, aircraft," he said.He went on to say that the estimates of the casualties were based "on the evidence of the heads of our municipal services, who saw it.
And unfortunately, we have seen that the bodies of dead Mariupol residents have started to disappear from the streets of our city."He said during a video conference that Russian troops were “taking the bodies of the dead residents of Mariupol in trucks and throwing them into those trenches,”Data from Maxar Technologies suggests the mass graves were dug from March 23 onwards.In a statement, Maxar said. "A review of our satellite images from mid-March through mid-April indicate that the expansion of the new set of graves began between March 23-26, 2022 and has continued to expand over the past couple of weeks. "The graves are aligned in four sections of linear rows (measuring approximately 85 meters per section) and contain more than 200 new graves."Petro Andriushchenko, one of Boychenko’s staff, wrote earlier today on Telegram: "As a result of a long search and identification of places of mass burial of dead Mariupol residents, we established the fact of arrangement and mass.
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