Talk:Izium mass grave

Location
N/NW edge of the town
 * Cesium
 * Open Street Map


 * The site would have been roughly on the frontlines on March 12, if not before. Military Summary Channel - March 12, ISW. Fighting for Izium continued until the 24th. Working assumption for the minute is that the site would have come under full control of Russian forces in mid-March. --Diagonal (talk) 13:47, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Grave markings
Some of the discernible dates of death on the crosses are for May, 2022, but also ones for March 2022, and April are seen. --Diagonal (talk) 15:36, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Timeline: Bodies in Izium/Kharkiv oblast
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 * Wikipedia: Battle of Izium (2022)
 * Twitter thread @elenaevdokimov7
 * March 13 Relatively little is known about the situation inside the city of Izyum. Much of it has been destroyed after two weeks of intense fighting and Izyum's mayor, Valerii Marchenko, estimates some 20,000 are still trapped inside the city. Mr Marchenko fled the city on 13 March in an organised convoy of 60 buses, but many residents remained in Izyum and he says they have been cut off ever since...People have been hiding in shelters for the past few weeks. They are getting sick and dying and you can't bury them. There are a lot people under the rubble of big buildings… Sky News
 * March 18: Ukraine, Russia agree on 9 humanitarian corridors for March 18 The Kyiv Independent. Moreover, Ukraine plans to deliver humanitarian aid to Balakleya and Izyum in the Kharkiv Oblast, New Indian Express
 * April 18 Guardian - Before the Russian occupation, local authorities managed to evacuate part of the population. But according to officials, approximately 10,000 to 15,000 citizens remain trapped, their fate uncertain. “We cannot know for sure, because about 1,000 civilians were killed in airstrikes, artillery shelling and bombings,” said Marchenko. “The last centralised evacuation was on 10 March. We organised a green corridor with 60 buses. Humanitarian aid flowed in and people fled on those buses.
 * May 3: Dreizin Report Based on extensive prisoner accounts, today, we may confidently say that the majority, perhaps SIZEABLE majority, of Ukrainian forces deployed to the northern sector—with fighting primarily between Kharkov city and the Russian border, and then Izium southeast to Yampol’—were NOT in uniform as of February. They are mobilized inactive-reservists, draftees, or (deployed from their home regions, in violation of their contracts) Territorial Defense militia. 
 * May 8:Video - Ukraine refuses to take away the bodies of dead soldiers. Russian military bury them in mass graves.
 * May 10: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/05/10/Over-40-bodies-found-under-rubble-of-destroyed-building-in-east-Ukraine-Officials


 * 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