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Rooshun media inflates mass graves claim by 40x
2014-10-02
Not even the pro Russian militia in Donetsk are claiming 400 dead bodies found. They say 40 have been found but so far only nine bodies have been exhumed. Bad enough, but not 400...
Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that 400 bodies had been found in mass graves in eastern Ukraine but the claim looked highly contentious after it emerged that reports from the scene had been distorted by Russian media.

"This is obviously a war crime," Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow. "Already more than 400 bodies have been discovered in burial sites outside Donetsk and we hope that western capitals will not hush up these facts [because] they're horrific."

Russian officials and separatist rebels suggested that both civilians and pro-Russian militiamen are among the dead found at several burial sites in and near Nizhnya Krynka, 20 miles east of Donetsk, the regional capital.
Posted by:badanov

#4  If Ukrainians had found bodies of civilians, the whole world would have found out about it, twice over.
Posted by: badanov   2014-10-02 16:24  

#3  As I pointed out earlier, isn't this in the same place the Ukranians were finding mass graves when they took it from the militias back in August?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-10-02 08:30  

#2  That's the thing about Russia. If there's not enough bodies to go around, they can always make more. And will...
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-10-02 07:31  

#1  I ween Russians been observing the Kosovo war closely.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-02 03:33  

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