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September 19, 2022

Ukraine Says Mass Grave in Territory Liberated from Russia Contains 400 Bodies
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The United Nations has announced plans to investigate reports that mass
graves have been discovered in the Kharkiv region in areas occupied by
Russia until Ukraine's recent counteroffensive. Liz Throssell, a
spokesperson of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, spoke on Friday.

Liz Throssell: "We have seen the reports about possible mass graves, or
what we call collective graves. We're aware of reports to which more
than 400 bodies were found in a collective grave in Izium. Our
colleagues in Ukraine, in the human rights monitoring mission in
Ukraine, are following up on these allegations, and they are aiming at
organizing a monitoring visit to Izium to determine the circumstances of
the death of these individuals."

During Ukraine's recent counteroffensive, it recaptured about 3,400
square miles of land - that's more land than Russia had captured over
the past five months.

In other news on the war in Ukraine, Ukraine's state nuclear agency says
a Russian military strike has hit the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.
No damage was reported to the plant's reactors. The facility is
Ukraine's second-largest nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, the 35-nation
board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a
resolution demanding that Russia end its occupation of Zaporizhzhia, the
largest nuclear power plant in Europe.


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