Satellite images are serving to discover another of the faces that reveal the horror of the war in Ukraine. In this case, that of a mass grave located in the vicinity of Mariupol in which the Ukrainian authorities have calculated that between 3,000 and 9,000 corpses.
The image taken from a satellite of the technology company Maxar, was denounced by the mayor of Mariúpol, Vadym Boychenko, through your Telegram account. The grave would be located next to the Mangush cemetery, a port city very close to Mariúpol.
Likewise, the City Council has shared captures from previous days in which you can see how the row of corpses grows.
The pit would have been dug at the end of March, based on the analysis of satellite images obtained by Maxar Technologies. The first is from March, 19before they started digging the grave.
The following image, taken on March 26thalready shows a long excavated trench.
Another later image April 9threveals an even larger and widened trench, which, according to the mayor of Mariupol, would be more than 300 meters long
Bigger than Bucha
The mayor showed these images in his telegram account and pointed out the similarity of the mass grave with those found in Bucha, near kyiv, in which hundreds of bodies appeared buried after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
“In the Maxar photos from April 9, the mass grave sector in Mangush is 20 times larger” than Bucha’s, the message explains. The Russians “dug new trenches and filled them with corpses every day throughout the month of April. Our sources report that in such tombs the bodies are placed in several layers,” said the first mayor.
“The Greatest Crime of the 21st Century”
Boychenko, always through Telegram, added that “the greatest war crime of the 21st century has been committed in Mariupol.” “This is the new babyn yard“, he said, referring to the historical episode in which the Nazis murdered nearly 34,000 Jews in Ukraine: “Hitler killed Jews, Roma gypsies and Slavs. And now Putin is destroying the Ukrainians.”
“A strong reaction from the entire civilized world. Something has to stop the genocide,” said the mayor of Mariupol, who added that by mid-March, the city’s public services had buried some 5,000 people in various areas of Mariupol. and peripheral neighborhoods.
a destroyed city
The latest estimates put in 22,000 dead caused by the Russian siege of this city on the shores of the Sea of Azov, since the beginning of the invasion ordered by Moscow on February 24.
The Ukrainian authorities confirmed this Thursday that the 95% of the buildings in this city areLocated in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country, where the attacks by Russian troops are focused in this phase of the war. .
Moscow announced on Thursday that it had taken control of this strategic city, which serves as a corridor for its troops between the Crimean peninsula, taken in 2014, and Donbas, a pro-Russian region in eastern Ukraine.
However, kyiv assures that the Russians still do not have total control of the city, and that there are 2,000 soldiers who remain entrenched in the city. Azovstal steel factory.
Source: Lasexta
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