![]() Adrien Vautier/Le Pictorium for 'Le Monde'ī., a Ukrainian officer, has his own explanation for this mystery. Adrien Vautier/Le Pictorium for 'Le Monde' In a street in Lyman, the Russian army abandoned the bodies of several of its soldiers when they retreated, Lyman (Donbas) on October 4, 2022. "When are you coming to pick up these dead bodies?" Yulia, a resident of Lyman, lives right next to about 15 corpses of Russian soldiers. Stray dogs have already eaten two of them," said Yulia to Ukrainian soldiers on patrol. Confused, she doesn't know exactly what day it was. Yulia is still rattled by the fear induced by the war. The one resident there who opened her door only knows that "three bodies were dumped there one evening, the day before the Russian army withdrew, and 14 other bodies the next day." She does not know why – she was hiding at home. If these men were lying in a morgue, why were they transferred to an open street? If they were wounded, why were they not taken to a field hospital? ![]() No one knows why these men were left by their comrades in the grass, in front of a wrecked house. On the city streets are not only the bodies of fallen soldiers, as seen throughout the battlefield, but also the bodies of Russian soldiers, lying on military stretchers on the side of the road. ![]() Most appeared to have died violent deaths, local officials said.In the liberated city of Lyman, chaos follows Russia's retreat By Rémy Ourdan (Lyman (Donbas) special correspondent) and Adrien Vautier (Photos) Published on Octoat 11h12, updated at 12h56 on October 6, 2022įeatureThe city in the Donbas region was recaptured on October 2 by the Ukrainian army, following a lightning counter-attack. Last month the bodies of 436 people were exhumed from a burial site in the northeastern town of Izyum after it was liberated. Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused Russian troops of committing atrocities in occupied territories, a charge Moscow denies. “Their identities are being established.” ![]() “The burned bodies of two citizens were also found in a car,” it said in the statement. Ukrainian authorities were cautious in saying whether any of the bodies exhumed Tuesday showed signs of having been executed or subjected to torture, emphasizing that the investigation was still in its early stages.Īt a separate site on Tuesday, about 20km (15 miles) to the west in the town of Sviatohirsk, the prosecutor general’s office said law enforcement officers had exhumed 34 bodies, some of which it said showed signs of violence, including gunshot wounds, rib and skull fractures, as well as injuries caused by explosives. He added that 55 bodies had been exhumed and that preliminary results indicated that the deaths resulted from “explosive and projectile injuries, bullet injuries”. “These are local civilians and our defenders, armed forces servicemen,” Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Tuesday at a cemetery in Lyman, which was retaken from Russian forces on October 1. Ukrainian authorities have exhumed dozens of bodies, including a one-year-old baby, to determine the causes of death following the retreat of Russian troops from two recently-liberated towns in the eastern Donetsk region, according to officials. ![]()
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