The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-governmental organization that fights disinformation, analyzed six areas that were or still are in Russian hands in Ukraine. “Our report illustrates the extreme, continuous pressure exerted on civilian life in Ukraine”, continues Benjamin Strick, for whom “the improvised burials and the increasing number of graves, in particular in and around the occupied areas, is a striking illustration of the number civilian deaths.
At the Starokrymske cemetery in Mariupol (southeast), for example, the authors of the report estimate that around 1,000 new graves are observable over a period of five months, between October 21, 2021 and March 28, 2022 – a month after the start. of the war. The rate of burials then increased sharply with 1,141 new graves visible on satellite images between March 28 and May 12 and more than 1,700 others between May 12 and June 29, according to the authors of the report.