UN to send team to site of mass burials in Izium, CNN source says

16/09/2022

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CNN United Nations source says that “a team from the UN’s human rights monitoring agency, the OHCHR, would be going to Izium and areas around it as soon as possible.”

The war crimes investigation team may follow after that, the source told CNN. Their specific destination remains unclear at this time.

Mass grave of Ukrainian defenders, 500 graves of civilians found in liberated Izium, Kharkiv Oblast

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