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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Zohra Bensemra and Abdelaziz Boumzar

Ukraine exhumes dozens of bodies in two liberated eastern towns

A doll is seen among graves, which Ukrainian officials say is a civilian mass grave, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the newly recaptured town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday they exhumed the bodies of dozens of people, including civilians and a one-year-old baby, to determine the cause of death following the retreat of Russian troops from two recently-liberated towns in the eastern Donetsk region.

"These are local civilians and our defenders, armed forces servicemen," Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said as forensic workers in white suits moved around one of the sites at a cemetery in Lyman, retaken from Russian forces on Oct. 1.

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