"They weren't really executions. They were... something else."
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 [RIA Novosti] Photos and videos obtained by RIA Novosti refute Kyiv's claims about alleged mass executions of Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, the materials were published on the agency's Telegram channel.
The footage is dated May of this year - they show dozens of Ukrainian soldiers who died in battles with the Russian Armed Forces with bullet and mine-explosive injuries. At least some of the bodies show signs of decomposition, apparently from long exposure to the open air.
According to a correspondent of RIA Novosti, who was in these places in March and April, fierce battles were fought in the villages of Brazhkovka and Suligovka near Izyum and settlements constantly changed hands. As a result, Russian troops managed to establish complete control over the villages and surrounding forests.
"The bodies of Ukrainian servicemen were collected at the abandoned positions and taken to the morgue in the city of Izyum. The identity of some soldiers was identified. All information was transferred to the Ukrainian side," one of the participants in those events from local residents told RIA Novosti.
However, according to him, "the Ukrainian command, unfortunately, refused to take the bodies of their servicemen," so they had to be buried in a cemetery near Izyum.
Until September, no one remembered the dead - until the Ukrainian troops, having regained control over Izyum and the surrounding territories, began to exhume the bodies. Kiev has accused Russian troops of crimes against humanity.
“However, in fact, we are dealing with a humane attitude towards the remains of the dead,” said the source of the agency, who asked not to be named for security reasons.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists about Kiev's attempts to unleash the same scenario in Izyum as in Bucha . He called the statements of the Ukrainian authorities "a lie" and assured that Russia, "of course, will defend the truth in this whole story."
At the beginning of the month, the head of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, announced that the authorities had begun the evacuation of the population from Kupyansk, Izyum, Shevchenkove and Balakleya. On September 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that troops from Balakleya and Izyum had regrouped to the Donetsk direction in order to achieve the stated goals of a special military operation to liberate Donbass.
In April, Ukrainian authorities and the media released a video allegedly filmed in the city of Bucha, Kyiv region, where the bodies of the dead lie on the road. The Russian Defense Ministry called all photos and videos published by the Kyiv regime "another provocation."
As noted in the defense department, during the time that Bucha was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions.
Kyiv unwinds scenario of provocation in Bucha in Izyum, Kremlin says
[RIA Novosti] Kyiv is promoting the same scenario in Izyum as with the provocation in Bucha: this is a lie, and the Russian Federation will defend the truth, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters.
"This is the same scenario as in Bucha. Everything develops according to one scenario. This is a lie. This is a lie, and of course, we will defend the truth in this whole story," Peskov answered the question of how the Kremlin could comment on Vladimir 's statement Zelensky about the war crimes allegedly committed by Russia in the north-east of Ukraine.
Earlier, the head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, told RIA Novosti that Kyiv would try to repeat the provocation scenario in Bucha in the city of Izyum, which had previously been subjected to numerous shelling by Ukrainian troops.
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[RIA Novosti] Photos and videos obtained by RIA Novosti refute Kyiv's claims about alleged mass executions of Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, the materials were published on the agency's Telegram channel.