Mass burial site includes torture victims, says Ukraine’s president

The unidentified graves in the recently retaken area of Izium (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that bodies unearthed at a new mass burial site in Ukraine included people who were tortured, some with broken limbs and ropes around their necks.

The burial site in an area recently recaptured from Russian forces contained both civilians and military dead, he said.