Ukraine finds mass grave near recaptured town


























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Houses destroyed and damaged after Russian attack on civilian neighborhood in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 14.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian paratroopers drive in a vehicle with a Ukrainian flag on a pontoon bridge across Siverskiy-Donets river in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 14.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A view of unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in a cemetery in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, who had been killed by Russian forces near the beginning of the war. A mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium.ASSOCIATED PRESS
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, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, who had been killed by Russian forces near the beginning of the war.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances uses his smartphone to film the grave a Ukrainian soldier in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, who had been killed by Russian forces near the beginning of the war.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances uses his smartphone to film the unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, who had been killed by Russian forces near the beginning of the war.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, left, speaks to his comrade near the unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, who had been killed by Russian forces near the beginning of the war.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian serviceman uses a metal detector to inspect a mass grave in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, which contains Ukrainian soldiers who were killed during the fighting against Russians near the beginning of the war.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian serviceman stands at the checkpoint near the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Svetlana Iezyk, right, Volodymyr Iezyk, left, and Andrii Iezyk gather at the entrance of their apartment in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, which since the beginning of the war has been without gas, water and electricity.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Andrii Iezyk shows the destroyed flat in his house in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15. Iezyk's family have since the beginning of the war lived without gas, water and electricity.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iuriy Usatyi, a Ukrainian national guard serviceman walks on the destroyed Russian APC's at the checkpoint near the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during joint press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15.