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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Anthony Deutsch

Ukrainian officials search for evidence of Russian war crimes

Tamila Pehyda, 67, attends an exhumation of her husband Serhii, 70, who was killed by shrapnel during a Russian missiles attack on June 21 in the village of Vysokopillia, Kherson region, Ukraine December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko

Tamila Pehyda, a retired school teacher, looked on in tears as gravediggers exhumed her husband's remains and a forensic pathologist examined them to establish the cause of death.

As suspected, Serhiy, who was 70 when he died in June in the southern Ukrainian village of Vysokopillia, was killed by shrapnel during heavy artillery shelling as Ukraine sought to recapture territory from the Russians.

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