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People in Ukraine town dig up hastily buried bodies for proper funeral

Lilia Ai-Talatini, 48, films specialists carrying the exhumed the body of her mother, Ekaterina Yatsyuk, who was buried outside a damaged apartment block during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the town of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, Ukraine August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

People in the eastern Ukrainian town of Rubizhne have started exhuming bodies that were hastily buried in courtyards at the height of fighting, anxious to be able to lay them to rest with dignity.

Rubizhne is part of the Luhansk region of Ukraine where Russian forces established full control in early July, more than four months after President Vladimir Putin launched what he called his "special military operation" in Ukraine.

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