In the village of Manhush, russian invaders could bury between 3,000 to 9,000 people.
Such a number was announced in the Mariupol City Council.
"This is indicated by a comparison with satellite photos of the burial ground in Bucha, where 70 people were found. On the April 9 Maxar images, the Manhush mass burial sector is 20 times larger. The occupiers dug new trenches and filled them with corpses every day throughout April. Our sources report that in such graves the bodies are put in several layers," the City Council said.
The Mariupol authorities stressed that russia had committed the greatest war crime of the 21st century in the city.
"This is the new Babyn Yar. Then Hitler killed Jews, Roma and Slavs. And now Putin is destroying Ukrainians. He has already killed tens of thousands of civilians in Mariupol. And this requires a strong response from the whole civilized world. Anything to stop the genocide," said the Mayor Vadym Boychenko.
According to the City authorities, by mid-March in various parts of Mariupol and the outskirts, the communal services buried about 5,000 people. And according to cautious estimates, the total number of killed by the russian army in Mariupol is 22,000 people.
Today the adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko reported that in the settlement of Manhush near Mariupol the russian occupiers prepared some 30-meter graves for burial of victims.
According to the Azov Regiment, russia transferred to Mariupol the occupiers who committed atrocities in Bucha.