Local residents discovered 42 fresh graves.
In the area of temporarily occupied Luhansk, local residents found 42 fresh graves in which mercenaries of the private military company “Wagner” could be buried. A mass burial was discovered in early February 2023 near the village of Kirivka.
According to the “Russian service of BBC News”, the residents of the village said that no one visits the graves, and none of the people buried there were familiar to them. The agency found in open sources references to 37 men whose data match the inscriptions on the tombstones.
“35 of them were Russians, one was a citizen of Belarus, and one more was born in Uzbekistan. On the websites of Russian courts, court verdicts for 20 people, who are the full namesakes of those buried in Luhansk, are listed. All of them should now be serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty,” – The publication notes.
At the same time, the pages of the full theses of most of the men buried near Luhansk can be found on social networks.
“Judging by the publications, only one of them was an orphan, and several more people spent most of their lives in prison and may not have had close people outside the colonies. Most of them were in constant contact with relatives and friends,” the journalists added.
It is noted that the burial site near Luhansk is already the third cemetery where dozens of graves of prisoners who fought against Ukraine as part of the “Wagner” PMC have been discovered.
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