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Zelensky calls Russia ‘murderers,’ ‘torturers’ after mass burial site found

Zelensky aide denies Ukraine link to Moscow attack
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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday lashed out at Russia as officials began exhuming bodies from a mass burial site discovered when Kyiv’s forces recaptured the east Ukrainian town of Izyum.

“Russia leaves only death and suffering. Murderers. Torturers,” Zelensky said in a statement on social media, adding that more than 400 bodies discovered in forests near Izyum included children and people who likely had been tortured.

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