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| Investigative Committee officers find 47 civilian bodies in Avdeevka |
| 2024-07-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The bodies of 47 civilians killed in the fighting were found in the city of Avdeevka in the DPR by Russian investigators, Izvestia wrote on July 25. The head of the forensics department of the regional headquarters of the Investigative Committee specified that during the past period of 2024, investigators conducted 38 inspections of crime scenes. All 47 victims were civilians, and only 24 bodies have been identified so far. “There are a very large number of requests from people who are looking for their relatives who lived in the Avdeevka area,” said a representative of the Investigative Committee. He stressed that no appeal is left without attention, genetic material is taken from relatives for identification. To search for bodies, he added, heavy equipment has to be used, since the city is heavily damaged. As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Ukrainian Armed Forces turned the northern suburb of Donetsk, Avdeevka, into a powerful fortified area and have been shelling peaceful areas of Donetsk from there since 2014. On February 17, 2024, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the liberation of Avdeevka. Earlier in July, dozens of bodies of dead civilians were found in the basements of houses in Toretsk. Presumably, these people died as a result of the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. |
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