"At this point, most of the killed residents have been buried. However, thousands of bodies were simply discarded along with rubble during demolitions, without any attempt at exhumation," Andriushchenko reported.He said that numerous graves still remain in the city, especially in private yards, where residents buried neighbors and relatives. Russian forces have not conducted systematic searches or exhumations in these areas.
"If individuals report the discovery of graves, the occupiers might conduct exhumations, but it’s rare, and the process is extremely slow," he explained.Andriushchenko noted that people returning to occupied territories often search for their loved ones’ burial sites to arrange reburials. Russian authorities maintain fragmented records for both unidentified bodies and those buried with documentation.
"The situation is pure chaos. The Russians have divided burial records into three locations—Mariupol, Mangush, and Novoazovsk—forcing people to travel between towns to morgues with unidentified remains. It’s a nightmare, deliberate cruelty, to make people endure this just to locate their loved ones," he said.He also pointed out that while casualty numbers are lower in newly occupied territories compared to Mariupol, the situation there remains equally grim.
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