Mounds of brown earth slide into the rows of graves on a day of cold rain and whipping winds as forensic investigators exhume bodies on a hillside to the sound of shellfire in the valleys beyond.
Two separate mass burial sites, for civilians and soldiers, have been found on the edge of the cemetery in this town, recently liberated from Russian forces. Some of the 78 remains recovered so far have signs of having met a violent end. There are body parts, gunshot and shrapnel wounds, smashed ribs and skulls, severe cuts. Some of the dead are very young; one is a year-old baby girl buried with her parents.
