Mass grave found in Mariupol, city mayor says

Destroyed buildings in Mariupol. Archive photoMARIUPOL, May 25.A mass spontaneous burial was found within the boundaries of the liberated Mariupol in the old cemetery, said the mayor of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko. «We see two large trenches. Now we can understand that there are a large number of corpses here. <…> «Azov» (against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in Russia). Of course, we will conduct an examination, which should show how the people died,» he said.The former mayor of Mariupol, Boychenko, said that he left the city on February 27. According to an eyewitness living in Mariupol, from March to the present, about three dozen bodies have been unloaded into trenches. tractor and digging holes. In the same month, cars came and unloaded something in black bags, unloaded and threw it into a hole. This is what I saw … I personally saw three times. But people say it was for a month … I was 30 (tel. — Approx. ed.), maybe more than 30. But the people who live here say that it was more than 30,” he shared. — the territory of the metallurgical plant «Azovstal». In total, according to the Ministry of Defense, since May 16, more than 2.4 thousand Nazis from Azov and the Ukrainian military have laid down their arms and surrendered, who were blocked at the plant for about a month. Peaceful life is being established in the city. So, public transport and gas stations began to work. In addition, four out of five hospitals are functioning. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By the end of March, they managed to «significantly reduce the combat potential of Ukraine.» The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.