Journalists claim that this mass grave is located on the edge of the city and is an open ditch
The newspaper The New York Times published Photo which allegedly depicts a mass grave in the city Lisichansk in the Luhansk region.
The journalistι claim that this mass grave is on the edge of town and is an open moat. In this grave, as the Ukrainian military says, they are the bodies of about 300 civilians in plastic bags killed in Lisichansk, Sheverodonetsk and Rubezhnoye in April. No one can bury them at this time. The military says they can not cover the trench as all the machinery is used to dig trenches.
Mass grave in Lysychansk. Since April, 300 residents of the frontline towns of Luhansk region have been buried here. russia is a terrorist state, and its “soldiers” are killers, looters and rapists.
Photo by @TylerHicksPhoto / @nytimes pic.twitter.com/oaU0pmg89m– Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 17, 2022
Lisichansk is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Fighting is currently taking place in Sheverodonetsk, while Rubezhogen has fallen into the hands of Russian troops.
Earlier, a video of a mass grave in Lisichansk was released by the head of the Luhansk region military administration, Sergei Gaidai.
Lisichansk remains the last major city in its region Lugansk, which has not been brought under control by Russian troops. Four people were killed today in the bombings.
Ukrainian media reported in late May that about 150 bodies were buried in a mass grave in the area of the former Maskovskaya coal mine. It is not clear from the New York Times whether the mass grave is in the coal mine area or if it is a new grave.
According to UN figures, some 4,500,000 civilians, including 300 children, have been killed since the start of the Russian-led invasion.
