DISINFO: Kyiv is making up the same lies in Izium as it did with the provocation in Bucha
SUMMARY
Kyiv is promoting the same scenario in Izium as it did with the provocation in Bucha: this is a lie, and the Russian Federation will defend the truth.
Kyiv would try to repeat the Bucha provocation scenario in the city of Izium, which had previously been subjected to heavy shelling by Ukrainian troops.
It cannot be excluded that the new provocations the Ukrainian side is preparing are due to attempts to spoil the impression of the big international events that are taking place these days, primarily the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is taking place in Samarkand.
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Disinformation narrative shared by pro-Kremlin media aiming to deflect responsibility away from the actions of the Russian military in the course of its invasion of Ukraine. Investigators are uncovering more evidence of war crimes in the formerly Russian-occupied city of Izium, as calls for an international inquiry growing louder.
Kharkiv regional prosecutor Olexander Ilyenkov says there is no doubt war crimes have been committed here. "In the first grave, there is a civilian who has a rope over her neck. So we see the traces of torture," he told the BBC.
He said almost everyone died because of Russian soldiers. "Some of them were killed, some were tortured, some were killed because of Russian Federation air and artillery strikes."
The burial ground - beside an existing cemetery - contains row after row of graves, marked by crude wooden crosses. Names were written on a few, but most were marked only by a number. The burials here were carried out under the orders of the Russians when they were in control.
Ukrainian police say there are 445 new graves at the site, but some contain more than one body. Many are said to be civilians, women and children among them.
In Bucha, after months of meticulous, painful and at times gruesome investigation, officials in Bucha said in August that they had reached what may be the closest they will get to a final accounting of victims of the murderous rampage by Russian troops that set off worldwide outrage over alleged atrocities: 458 bodies, of which 419 bore markings they had been shot, tortured or bludgeoned to death.
On 2 March 2022 the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor opened an investigation into crimes committed in Ukraine. The decision was taken after 41 States, including the 27 European Union Member States.
Russian disinformation media advanced conspiracy theories on Bucha atrocities, stating that corpses shown were moving and standing up. See more disinformation cases on Bucha, as well as on war crimes in Ukraine.