Family among hundreds of victims found in Ukraine mass grave

Entire family, including a young child, among hundreds of victims found in newly-discovered mass grave in Ukraine

Sep 18, 2022 by World - CBSNews.com

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  • World September 16, 2022 / 12:26 PM / CBS News Inside Izyum Inside Izyum: Death and destruction left behind by Russia 02:42 Izyum, Ukraine, is one of many towns that for months was controlled by Russian forces that relentlessly shelled the area and its people.
  • The town was just recently liberated by Ukraine, and it was discovered that so many people were killed so quickly that hundreds were buried in shallow mass graves – including at least one entire family.
  • Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a video posted to Telegram on Friday that among those buried is "a whole family" – a mother and father in their 30s, their parents, and their 5- or 6-year-old daughter.
  • co/dKS6WPvIkH pic.twitter.com/tPtRYptTdi > > — CBS News (@CBSNews) September 16, 2022 "We have testimony from locals stating they were all killed as a result of an air attack carried out by planes of the Russian Federation's military," Lubinets was translated as saying in Ukrainian.

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