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Hours after

Vladimir Putin

announced the seizure of

Mariupol

in the

war in Ukraine

after giving orders not to continue the battle against the

Azov

battalion in the

Azovstal

steel mill , images from the Maxar satellite showed what would be more than

200 mass graves

with some

9,000 corpses

, according to the City Council, on the outskirts of

Mariupol

in what would be a new horror of the

war in Ukraine

.

The mayor of

Mariupol

accused the Russians of "concealing their military crimes" by removing the bodies of civilians from the city and burying them in

Manhush

.

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The mass grave discovered by satellite in Mariupol: the Russians "try to hide the number of dead"

The mayor of Mariupol,

Vadym Boychenko,

has reported the discovery of a new mass grave about 30 meters long dug by Russian troops about 20 kilometers from the city, near the town of

Manhush

.

In statements to television, collected by the Interfax Ukraina agency, Boychenko pointed out that there is information that "all these crimes that occurred in the city of Mariupol and that have signs of war crimes, of genocide" are being hidden by Russian troops in graves common.

Satellite images released Thursday by Maxar Technologies showed what appeared to be mass graves in the town of Manhush, outside Mariupol.

Maxar said the photos showed more than

200 mass graves

in the city, moving away from an existing cemetery.

The graves could contain up to

9,000 dead

, the Mariupol City Council said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

Thus, he indicated that near Manhush, as its inhabitants explain, Russian troops dug

a 30-meter mass grave

into which they dump the lifeless bodies transported there in trucks.

He added that the occupiers are carrying out a "cleansing" in the city among the municipal officials and workers who have remained in Mariupol.

"They are being transferred somewhere. We think it is behind bars. There they are being interrogated, tortured, and so on," she said.

"This is direct evidence of war crimes and the attempt to cover them up."

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