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Izyum's forest graves yield terrible evidence of Russian torture, war crimes

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Izyum's forest graves yield terrible evidence of Russian torture, war crimes

 Those who have been in war zones or at natural disasters where many have perished, know that dreadful, unmistakable stench of death which seems to cling to your clothes and feels like it has seeped into your flesh.  The memory of the scent lingers for days and haunts the imagination. That is the smell that assaults you in a forest clearing at the edge of Izyum, one of the largest towns liberated from Russian occupation by Ukrainian forces in a spectacular counter-offensive this month in the country’s north east. Townspeople took Ukrainian soldiers and police to the sea of freshly dug graves containing the victims of the Kremlin’s aggression since Russian forces besieged Izyum in the early spring, pummeling it with merciless shellfire. They then occupied it until abandoning it in headlong flight as Ukrainian forces advanced last weekend.
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