The heartbreaking cry of a woman to find her son in a mass grave near kyiv

Kneeling on the ground near a gas station destroyed by a shelling on the outskirts of kyiv, Lyudmila mourns her 23-year-old son, after discovering his body in a grave.

“Let me see it just a moment,” the woman pleads as another tries to hold her back. “My boy,” she murmurs.

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Very close to the town of Buzovain a hole dug in the ground, the body of Yevgenynext to that of another man, appears deformed by water, covered in mud and hidden by a mattress from the army.

But his mother has recognized his shoes. “I’m not leaving here,” he repeats, clutching at the rubble around him.

A Ukrainian mother reacts after her son’s body was discovered in a sewer near kyiv. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP).

Not far away, the remains of two tanks shattered by the fighting can be seen. On one of them, a white “V” is painted, a symbol of the Russian forces that invaded Ukraine on February 24 and have been withdrawn from the region for more than a week.

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Since the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered its troops to end the offensive against the capital, the Ukrainian authorities are regaining control of nearby towns, and accuse the Russians of having committed “massacres”.

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The images of about twenty corpses in civilian clothes, some handcuffed, in Bucha, in the northwest of kyiv, went around the world. The Ukrainian authorities denounce a “war crime”.

The Kremlin, for its part, affirms that it is a “set-up” organized by the Ukrainians.

A Ukrainian rescuer inspects a body discovered in the sewer of a gas station outside the village of Buzova, west of kyiv, on April 10, 2022. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

In other towns near the capital, other scenes of abuse have been discovered. On Sunday, the country’s justice system stated that 1,222 dead had been found in the kyiv region since the beginning of the invasion, without specifying whether they were only civilians.

In Buzovaone of the representatives of the people Lyudmila Zakabluk ensures that Yevgenyas well as the other man found next to him, they were members of the Territorial Defense Forces, a reserve unit of the Ukrainian army. They had been missing since March 16.

“My heart weighs so much”, Lyudmila laments. “How awful! How is it possible to do this?”

Although the cause of death of the two men is not yet established, blood was visible on the head of one of them.

The execution of prisoners of war is prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Ukrainian rescuers carry bodies that were discovered in a sewer at a gas station outside the village of Buzova, west of kyiv, on April 10, 2022. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Duel

After cleaning the pit with a tanker truck, the police seal off the place and a man gets into the cavity.

With the help of a white rope, each body is extracted. The one belonging to Lyudmila’s son is the lightest, but it takes nine men to get him out of the place.

In the surroundings, spring begins to dawn. But the mother’s cries of pain fill everything.

When Evgueni’s body is fully extracted from the hole, he throws himself towards it. “Let me see it,” she implores her. “I want to see it”.

This time, four men are needed to hold her.

Residents look at a destroyed Russian tank outside the village of Buzova, west of kyiv, Ukraine, on April 10, 2020. (Sergei SUPINSKY/AFP)

Source: Elcomercio