The OSCE has confirmed that three mass graves, allegedly with many bodies, have been found near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Two of the bodies have already been identified.
“The OSCE are taking the responsibility to answer all the questions that have arisen. Due to the security situation at the moment, it is not easy to carry out a full investigation. However, we have a monitoring mission, which is working at present in Ukraine,” said Ilkka Kanerva, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OCSE.
The discovery of the graves was made on September 23 by self-defense forces, who were responding to information given to them by locals, who said that they had been dug by
Ukrainian government forces, supported the the USAThe European Union has received information from the OSCE that concerns the discovery of mass graves near Donetsk, the EU external action service told Itar-Tass news agency on Thursday.
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Among the four victims was 21-year-old Nikita Kolomiytsev, a local resident, whose grieving mother arrived at the scene of mass graves to identify her son.
“I couldn’t stand for him to be killed and thrown like a dog somewhere – I had to come and identify him,” Nikita's mother, Galina, told RT.
Galina said she fled to central Ukraine to take her younger 16-year-old son out of harm's way, but she felt she’d “failed to protect” her elder son.
“The Ukrainian army took [Nikita]away… my husband went there and told them – take me instead of my son. But they said they had taken him for a further prisoner swap.” “No one exchanged anybody for anybody.
They just shot them dead here outside the village
and threw them into the ground... like dogs,” she added, sobbing. According to Konstantin Gerasimenko, chief medical examiner, “all four victims – they are all male – have multiple gunshot wounds to head and body.”
“Their hands were taped behind their backs. Some of them were only in their underwear,” he said. [
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