Izium mass grave

''See also Bucha massacre

Summary
There have been numerous reports that Ukraine is trying to manufacture a Bucha-style press campaign after their troops entered Izium (including people detained by Ukraine in captured area on on minor pretexts, or none at all) (sample: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Western mass media is eager to pick up the Ukrainian version of the story, in addition to shamelessly promoting and cheering up their side in general.

Ukrainian

 * Zelensky: Two more mass graves were found in de-occupied Izyum - Anna Kholodnova, Babel, 25 September, 2022

Western Media

 * Izium mass graves - Wikipedia
 * Torture, murder and kidnapping: Russian withdrawal from Izium reveals horrors - Siobhan O’Grady, Anastasia Gallochka and Wojciech Grzeszinski, The Washington Post (Archive Today), September 17, 2022
 * Ukrainian president: Burial site contains torture victims - AP News, VASILISA STEPANENKO, September 16, 2022
 * Most people buried in mass grave in Ukraine's Izium are civilians, police chief says - Reuters, September 16, 2022
 * Izium: after Russian retreat, horrors of Russian occupation are revealed - Luke Harding, The Guardian, September 17, 2022
 * In the woods of Izyum, prosecutors move among hastily-dug graves - Daniel McLaughlin, Irish Times, September 2022
 * “My daughter had a chronic illness from childhood and was disabled, and she didn’t survive all this. It was impossible to get the medicines she needed, and she fell into a coma and died in May. She was 32,” says Lilia, as she tries to find her daughter’s makeshift grave among the hundreds in the forest and to ensure she will have a proper burial. Locals describe how the occupation administration of Russians and collaborators allowed a funeral home to collect the dead and inter them in the forest near an existing cemetery but would not allow funerals; relatives were barred from the area and were merely told the number of the simple wooden cross on their family member’s grave.


 * 'Hands tied, jaws broken:' What we know about the mass burial site in Ukraine's Izyum - AFP, September 20, 2022
 * Victims found among bodies in Izyum mass grave had their genitals hacked off, Ukrainian forces reveal as they uncover Russian torture chamber with 'electric cables' - Mail Online, September 20, 2022
 * 'Mass burial site containing 440 graves' found in Izyum after city liberated by Ukrainian forces - Deborah Haynes, Sky News, September 21, 2022
 * Asked if he could say how the victims had died, he responded: "We know that some were killed [shot dead], some died because of artillery fire, so-called mine explosion traumas. Some died because of airstrikes. Also we have information that a lot of bodies have not been not identified yet. So the reasons of death will be established during the investigations.

Timeline in Izium
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Evidential issues

 * September 20: @Malinka1102 - #Ukraine #Zelensky Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights D. Lubinets denied entry to #Izyum cemetery to journalists from leading Western media 

Analysis

 * Bucha 2.0 in Izyum – Ukraine uses civilians killed by shelling and the graves of its soldiers to play the massacre card - Christelle Néant, Donbass Insider, September 16, 2022
 * Ukraine - Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items - Moon of Alabama, September 16, 2022
 * Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items - Addendum - Moon of Alabama, September 17, 2022
 * EXPECTEDLY, NEW BUCHA-LIKE NARRATIVES SPRING UP IN KHARKOV REGION - Southfront,
 * Time to drop our illusions, the West is waging a war to destroy Russia - Vladimir Kornilov, RIA Novosti via RT, September 20, 2022