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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Sengupta

‘Terrible things happened here’: Entire families believed to be inside mass graves in Ukraine’s Lyman

Supplied by Donetsk governor

The fields are lit by pale autumn sunshine and covered in red and gold fallen leaves. They are also scarred with dark shallow graves – scenes of mass burial that have become painfully familiar in Ukraine’s bitter war.

The sites outside Lyman, in the Donetsk region, contain around 200 bodies, say Ukrainian authorities – of civilians, including babies and children, and soldiers who had died during four months of Russian occupation of the city.

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