In pretty much every case, when Russian forces are driven out of an area, they leave behind mass graves. Some of those buried n those graves are Ukrainian soldiers, but most are civilians who had no role in the fighting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62931224.amp
In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.
The earth is giving up its secrets. Ukrainian officials believe war crimes have been committed, which they are determined to document.
Around 100 Ukrainian emergency service workers wearing blue plastic coverings dug into the earth, opening makeshift graves.