The American company Maxar Technologies has published satellite images of the Pishansky cemetery near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, where a mass burial with more than 440 bodies was discovered, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies showing the entrance to the cemetery in Izyum, Ukraine, in March 2022 and August 2022 and released on September 17, 2022.

Maxar also published a photo from April 8, in which 6 artillery installations are visible near the entrance to Pishan Cemetery.

The photo from August 29 shows 2 tanks along the edge of the woods north of the cemetery.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said on Friday evening that Russia repeated the Buchanan scenario in Izyum, saying that torture chambers were found near the mass grave, in which the civilians of the occupied cities were abused.

“99 percent” of the bodies exhumed Friday in Izyum, a city in eastern Ukraine that was recently retaken from the Russians, “had signs of violent death,” Oleg Synegubov, the regional governor, said.

In Izyum, “there are several corpses with their hands tied behind their backs, one person is buried with a rope around their neck. Obviously, these people were tortured and executed,” Sinegubov said on Telegram, accompanying his message with photos of hundreds of graves found near Izyum.

At least 150,000 Ukrainians lived under Russian occupation for almost the entire time of the invasion. By September 6, Ukrainian troops had recaptured more than 300 settlements in the Kharkiv region, returning more than 3,800 square kilometers of territory occupied by the Russians.

“The release reveals many crimes. It’s as if we are approaching hundreds, if not thousands of cities in Buchi, only on a smaller scale,” said People’s Deputy of Ukraine Lesya Vasylenko, referring to the mass burials of civilians and evidence of torture discovered in Buchi during its capture by Ukrainian troops. Kyiv region.

• “The release reveals many crimes. It’s like we’re approaching the hundreds, if not thousands, of Buchi cities, only on a smaller scale,” Vasylenko said, referring to the mass burials of civilians and evidence of torture discovered in Buchi when Ukrainian troops retook Kyiv.
• “But regardless of the scale, there will be tribunals, retribution and justice,” she adds.
• “Decapitated corpses of Ukrainian soldiers. They shot and tortured civilians. The number will rise and investigations will continue.
• Robbed houses. The military in Russia take everything, even underwear. And at the same time they leave their weapons.
• Complete chaos in houses, churches, on the streets. It’s as if toilets are unknown to Russians. Human feces everywhere”

According to police chief Ihor Klymenko, after the liberation of a part of the Kharkiv region, at least ten places were discovered that were used by Russian troops as “torture chambers”.