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SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOW POSSIBLE MASS GRAVES NEAR MARIUPOL

By ADAM SCHRECKtoday



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FILE - This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Thursday, April
21, 2022 shows an overview of the cemetery in Manhush, some 20 kilometers west
of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 19, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar
Technologies via AP)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Satellite images released Thursday showed what appeared to
be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up
to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking
place in the siege of the port city.

The images emerged hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory
in the battle for the Mariupol, despite the presence of an estimated 2,000
Ukrainian fighters who were still holed up at a giant steel mill. Putin ordered
his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off “so that not even a
fly comes through.”

Satellite image provider Maxar Technologies released the photos, which it said
showed more than 200 mass graves in a town where Ukrainian officials say the
Russians have been burying Mariupol residents killed in the fighting. The
imagery showed long rows of graves stretching away from an existing cemetery in
the town of Manhush, outside Mariupol.

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Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko accused the Russians of “hiding their military
crimes” by taking the bodies of civilians from the city and burying them in
Manhush.

The graves could hold as many as 9,000 dead, the Mariupol City Council said
Thursday in a post on the Telegram messaging app.


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Boychenko labeled Russian actions in the city as “the new Babi Yar,” a reference
to the site of multiple Nazi massacres in which nearly 34,000 Ukrainian Jews
were killed in 1941.

“The bodies of the dead were being brought by the truckload and actually simply
being dumped in mounds,” an aide to Boychenko, Piotr Andryushchenko, said on
Telegram.

There was no immediate reaction from the Kremlin. When mass graves and hundreds
of dead civilians were discovered in Bucha and other towns around Kyiv after
Russian troops retreated three weeks ago, Russian officials denied that their
soldiers killed any civilians there and accused Ukraine of staging the
atrocities.

In a statement, Maxar said a review of previous images indicates that the graves
in Manhush were dug in late March and expanded in recent weeks.



After nearly two lethal months of bombardment that largely reduced Mariupol to a
smoking ruin, Russian forces appear to control the rest of the strategic
southern city, including its vital but now badly damaged port.

But a few thousand Ukrainian troops, by Moscow’s estimate, have stubbornly held
out for weeks at the steel plant, despite a pummeling from Russian forces and
repeated demands for their surrender. About 1,000 civilians were also trapped
there, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Instead of sending troops to finish off the defenders in a potentially bloody
frontal assault, Russia apparently intends to maintain the siege and wait for
the fighters to surrender when they run out of food or ammunition.

Boychenko rejected any notion that Mariupol had fallen into Russian hands.

“The city was, is and remains Ukrainian,” he declared. “Today our brave
warriors, our heroes, are defending our city.”

The capture of Mariupol would represent the Kremlin’s biggest victory yet of the
war in Ukraine. It would help Moscow secure more of the coastline, complete a
land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized in
2014, and free up more forces to join the larger and potentially more
consequential battle now underway for Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland,
the Donbas.

Putin expressed concern for the lives of Russian troops in deciding against
sending them in to clear out the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, where the
die-hard defenders were hiding in a maze of underground passageways.

At a joint appearance with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin
declared, “The completion of combat work to liberate Mariupol is a success,” and
he offered congratulations to Shoigu.

Shoigu predicted the steel plant could be taken in three to four days, but Putin
said that would be “pointless.”

“There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through
these industrial facilities,” the Russian leader said. “Block off this
industrial area so that not even a fly comes through.”

The plant covers 11 square kilometers (4 square miles) and is threaded with some
24 kilometers (15 miles) of tunnels and bunkers.

“The Russian agenda now is not to capture these really difficult places where
the Ukrainians can hold out in the urban centers, but to try and capture
territory and also to encircle the Ukrainian forces and declare a huge victory,”
retired British Rear Adm. Chris Parry said.

Russian officials for weeks have said capturing the mostly Russian-speaking
Donbas is the war’s main objective. Moscow’s forces opened the new phase of the
fighting this week along a 300-mile (480-kilometer) front from the northeastern
city of Kharkiv to the Azov Sea.

While Russia continued heavy air and artillery attacks in those areas, it did
not appear to gain any significant ground over the past few days, according to
military analysts, who said Moscow’s forces were still ramping up the offensive.

A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss
the Pentagon’s assessment, said the Ukrainians were hindering the Russian effort
to push south from Izyum.

Rockets struck a neighborhood of Kharkiv on Thursday, and at least two civilians
were burned to death in their car. A school and a residential building were also
hit, and firefighters tried to put out a blaze and search for anyone trapped.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian troops
kidnapped a local official heading up a humanitarian convoy in the southern
Kherson region. She said the Russians offered to free him in exchange for
Russian prisoners of war, but she characterized that as unacceptable.

Vereshchuk also said efforts to establish three humanitarian corridors in the
Kherson region failed Thursday because Russian troops did not hold their fire.

Western nations, meanwhile, rushed to pour heavy weapons into Ukraine to help it
counter the offensive in the east.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in military
assistance, including heavy artillery, 144,000 rounds of ammunition and drones.
But he also warned that the $13.6 billion approved last month by Congress for
military and humanitarian aid is “almost exhausted” and more will be needed.

All told, more than 100,000 people were believed trapped with little or no food,
water, heat or medicine in Mariupol, which had a prewar population of about
430,000. Over 20,000 people have been killed in the siege, according to
Ukrainian authorities.

The city has seized worldwide attention as the scene of some of the worst
suffering of the war, including deadly airstrikes on a maternity hospital and a
theater.

Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of launching attacks to block civilian
evacuations from the city. On Thursday, at least two Russian attacks hit the
city of Zaporizhzhia, a way station for people fleeing Mariupol. No one was
wounded, the regional governor said.

Among those who arrived in Zaporizhzhia after fleeing Mariupol were Yuriy and
Polina Lulac, who spent nearly two months living in a basement with at least a
dozen other people. There was no running water and little food, Yuriy Lulac
said.

“What was happening there was so horrible that you can’t describe it,” said the
native Russian speaker who used a derogatory word for the Russian troops, saying
they were “killing people for nothing.”

“Mariupol is gone. In the courtyards there are just graves and crosses,” Lulac
said.

The Red Cross said it expected to to evacuate 1,500 people by bus, but that the
Russians allowed only a few dozen to leave and pulled some people off of the
buses.

Dmitriy Antipenko said he lived mostly in a basement with his wife and
father-in-law amid death and destruction.

“In the courtyard, there was a little cemetery, and we buried seven people
there,” Antipenko said, wiping away tears.

___

Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Felipe Dana in Kharkiv,
Ukraine; Yesica Fisch in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; Danica Kirka in London; and
Robert Burns and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report, as did
other AP staff members around the world.

___

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