The main investigative department of the National Police of Ukraine reported that in 2022, 16,502 Ukrainian civilians have been killed as a result of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The National Police discovered 21 mass graves in the liberated territories, from which 1,033 bodies of civilians and soldiers were exhumed.
Source: The main investigative department of the National Police of Ukraine
“Thus, from February 24, 2022, to January 3, 2023, 16,502 killed persons were found on the territories of Ukraine, namely: in the Donetsk region – 4,746; Kharkiv – 3784; Mykolaiv – 2,207; Kyiv – 2,072; Chernihiv – 899; Luhansk – 815; Kherson – 686; Sumy – 341; Zhytomyr – 283; Zaporizhzhia – 66,” clarified the main investigative department of the National Police of Ukraine.
21 mass graves were found in the liberated territories, of which 3 were found in the Donetsk region (278 civilians and 37 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were exhumed), 14 in Kyiv (177 people were exhumed), 2 in Kharkiv (451 civilians and 44 servicemen were exhumed), and 2 in Kherson region (46 people were exhumed).
“Out of the indicated number, most of the bodies have gunshot wounds and mine-explosive injuries (it is impossible to specify the exact number of such persons due to the incompleteness of the expert studies intended to establish the causes of death),” noted the main investigative department of the National Police of Ukraine.
In addition, the prosecutor’s office discovered 54 torture chambers and recorded more than 5,000 cases of torture in the liberated territories of Ukraine.
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