The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar 'cemetery', one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people.
abc.net.au/news/the-peculiar-russian-missile-cemetery-in-eastern-ukraine/101807076The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar "cemetery", one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people.Prosecutors hope the debris may some day be used as evidence of war crimesThe graveyard has more than 1,000 missiles, or parts of them.
Dmytro Chubenko, spokesman for the Kharkiv prosecutor's office, said the rockets had been collected since the first attacks, and after some time officials decided to organise them by type.An aerial view of Kharkiv's missile "cemetery", where parts are sorted by size.The missiles, he added, had been used against some important residential areas, like North Saltivka and Oleksiivka.
He said authorities estimated at least 1,700 people had been killed by shelling, including 44 children, in Kharkiv and its surroundings.In summer, the buildings in areas like Saltivka were severely damaged, some blackened and others crumbling.
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