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UN to inspect collective grave site in liberated Izium

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Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, said on Sept. 16 that the agency plans to send monitors to the recently liberated city of Izium in Kharkiv Oblast where Ukrainian police say they have found a mass burial site containing around 440 graves. “They (monitors) are aiming to go there to try to establish a bit more about what may have happened,” Throssell said.

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