Ukrainian Interior Minister reports bodies of 63 people killed by Russian soldiers found in Kherson region so far

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky reported Thursday that authorities in the recently-liberated Kherson region have found the bodies of 63 people who were killed by Russian soldiers.

“Investigators are currently examining them and recording every instance of torture. Witnesses are being located, and the bodies are being exhumed,” the ministry’s press service quoted Monastyrsky as saying.

According to Monastyrsky, 436 criminal cases have been opened for war crimes in the Kherson region. In addition, law enforcement agencies have found 11 locations in the region where Russian soldiers held people in captivity, and prisoners were tortured in at least four of them, the minister said.

Monastyrsky stressed that the investigation is still in its early stages, and that many “torture chambers and burial sites” are likely yet to be found.

Meduza cannot always promptly verify or refute claims made by officials during wartime