The remains of an entire family, including grandparents and a young child, have been found in a newly-discovered mass grave in Izyum, Ukraine. Hundreds of victims have been found at the site.
Izyum, Ukraine, is one of many towns that for months was controlled by Russian forces that relentlessly shelled the area and its people. The town was just recently liberated by Ukraine, and it was discovered that so many people were killed so quickly that hundreds were buried inCBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta visited the site on Friday, where she learned that the makeshift cemetery included those who were killed by shelling.
"We have testimony from locals stating they were all killed as a result of an air attack carried out by planes of the Russian Federation's military," Lubinets was translated as saying in Ukrainian. until Ukrainian forces were able to take it back earlier this week.
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