Russian forces accused of secret burials of Mariupol civilians in mass graves

Mayor says corpses thrown into mass grave which appears to be visible on newly released satellite images

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Russia has been hiding evidence of its barbaric" war crimes in Mariupol by burying the bodies of civilians killed by shelling in a new mass grave, the city's mayor said on Thursday, as a US satellite imagery company released photos that appeared to match the site.

The mayor, Vadym Boichenko, said Russian trucks had collected corpses from the streets of the port city and had transported them to the nearby village of Manhush. They were then secretly thrown into a mass grave in a field next to the settlement's old cemetery, he said.