Prosecutor General’s Office: 30% of the exhumed bodies of those who died at the hands of the enemy have traces of torture

The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that 30% of the exhumed bodies of those killed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had traces of violent death associated with the use of possible torture and ill-treatment.

Yuriy Bilousov, head of the department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, said this in an interview.

“Currently, a significant number of examinations of the deceased, those burials that were discovered in Kharkiv, are being conducted. But there are, for example, obvious signs of torture when, when exhuming a body, you find that the body, for example, has its hands tied behind its back, or we see traces of injuries that are characteristic of torture. I can roughly say that maybe 30% of the dead and those bodies we exhumed had traces of a violent death associated with the use of possible torture and ill-treatment. That’s quite a lot… 

I am talking about the total number of bodies exhumed by us, civilian bodies, in Kyiv region, Kharkiv region, Luhansk region, Kherson region. About 30% on average, so to speak, have traces of abuse,” he said. Bilousov did not specify how many bodies were exhumed, but noted that it is about thousands of people, the data is updated daily. “In general, we have officially confirmed more than eight thousand dead civilians. We understand that in reality they are much more, but these are the ones where we have access to the body: 8180 people, 430 of them are children. Roughly speaking, very roughly speaking, a third: from two to two and a half thousand of them had signs of ill-treatment,” he noted.

The Russians have already taken about 10,764 children from the occupied regions of Ukraine, 262 children are considered missing.

This is reported by the Office of the General Prosecutor, as of the morning of November 10, at least 1,258 children have suffered.

According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, the official number of children who died has not changed and is 430.

Also, the number of victims remained constant – 828 children received injuries of varying degrees of severity.

Juvenile prosecutors emphasize that these numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Children were most affected in:

• Donetsk region – 420, 
• Kharkivska – 263, 
• Kyivska – 116,
• Mykolaivska – 77, 
• Chernihivska – 68, 
• Luhansk – 64, 
• Khersonska – 58, 
• Zaporizhzhia – 70, 
• Dnipropetrovsk – 31.

The latest discovered facts of crimes against children:

It became known that on April 24, as a result of enemy shelling of the village of A 16-year-old boy was injured in Vesele, Kharkiv region.

The prosecutor’s office noted that 2,719 educational institutions were damaged due to bombing and shelling by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Of them, 332 were completely destroyed.

In addition, juvenile prosecutors report that they have already found 7,404 children. The prosecutor’s office considers 262 children to be missing.

In addition, the department emphasized that 10,764 children were deported to Russia and the so-called republics, of which only 96 minors were returned home.

On November 9, the Russian invaders killed three civilians in Donetsk region, two died in Bakhmut and one in Pavlivka.

This was reported by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

In addition, law enforcement officers discovered the bodies of five people killed by the Russians during the occupation — in Yarovya. According to Kyrylenka, another 12 people in the region were injured.

In total, since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, about 1,185 people have died and 2,578 have been injured. However, these data do not take into account the victims in Mariupol and Volnovas, because it is still impossible to establish the exact number of victims there: “Every war criminal will be punished!” – Kirylenko emphasized.

As of the beginning of the 260th day of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian soldiers repelled the attacks of the occupiers in a number of settlements in Donetsk region

On November 10, the Russian military attacked three communities of the Dnipropetrovsk region — Marganetska, Chervonogrigorivska and Nikopolska. The occupiers hit peaceful towns and villages with multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery.

Within a day, it became known about 3 dead civilians in Donetsk region, 5 killed during the occupation were discovered – regional military administration

During the day of November 9, the death of three civilians in the Donetsk region was confirmed, the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported on Friday morning.

“On November 9, it became known about three civilians killed by Russians in Donetsk region: two in Bakhmut and one in Pavlivka.”

Kyrylenko did not specify when the civilians were killed.

 “In addition, the law enforcement officers discovered the bodies of five people killed by the Russians during the occupation – in Yarovya,” the head of the region added.

Another 12 people in the region were injured during the day.

According to the headquarters, during the previous day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled Russian attacks near Novoselivskyi and Makiivka in the Luhansk region, as well as Soledar, Klishchiivka, Maiorsk, Yakovlivka, Andriivka, Bilogorivka, Vesely, Nevelskyi, Pervomaiskyi, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region.

At night, the Russians fired at civilian objects in the areas of the front from Vugledar to Soledar. This was announced by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko. On the Volnovasky direction, one person died in Pavlivka, also under intense shelling – Vugledar.

In the Donetsk direction, there were isolated flights over Avdiivka the day before in the evening and at night – there is 1 dead person. Shelling was also recorded in Marinska hromada – no information about victims and destruction was received.

In the Horliv district, Bakhmut suffered the most: in the previous day, 1 civilian was killed in the city, 2 more were wounded; 4 private houses and an administration building were damaged. The outskirts of Toretska, Svitlodarska and Soledarska communities came under shelling at night – there were no victims there.

The occupiers are taking away looted property from cities in the Luhansk region.

This was announced by the Luhansk Regional Military Administration.

Russian attacks were repulsed from Makiivka and Novoselivskyi, the occupiers are taking away looted property from Severodonetsk, doctors in Novopskov have been ordered to look for unsuspecting patients, part of Kreminnaya has been without gas since March. Such are the realities of the occupation, according to the Luhansk Regional Military Administration.

The occupiers are taking away looted property and stolen cars from Severodonetsk – they are taking what is left. Looting takes place under the cover of representatives of the so-called state security agencies. In the city, there are tens of thousands of apartments without owners who evacuated, which are used by the occupiers, the Luhansk Regional Military Administration explained.

“The situation in Kreminnaya is difficult. There is gas in half of the city – where the distribution system remained intact. In those areas where the Russians destroyed it back in the spring, no one has restored the supply of blue fuel – more than six months have passed. Medicines can be purchased at only one pharmacy that remains open. In grocery stores, as before, there are significant problems with the assortment of goods,” the Luhansk Regional Military Administration states.