Russia is calling for an international investigation into the discovery of burial sites with signs of execution at locations where the Ukraine National Guard forces were stationed two days earlier, reports GHN based on RT.
The head of Russia's presidential human rights council, Mikhail Fedotov, has called on the authorities to do everything to "ensure an independent international probe" and "let international human rights activists and journalists" gain access to the site in Eastern Ukraine's embattled Donetsk region.
The crime, Fedotov noted, shouldn't "remain without consequences." He didn't exclude the discovery of other burial sites, reminding that mass killings are "the reality of the modern-day war" and that such crimes were committed in the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
The burial sites near the Kommunar mine, 60 kilometers from Donetsk, were first discovered on Tuesday by self-defense forces.
Four bodies have been exhumed, including those of three women. Their hands were tied, at least one of the bodies was decapitated, self-defense fighters said.
Two bodies were found Monday, and two others Tuesday.
Self-defense forces believe there might be other burials in the area.
"They are from Kommunar, which has just been freed [by DNR/DPR forces]. The people told me that the women had been missing and here we found four bodies. And I don't know how many more people we might find," a self-defense fighter, nicknamed Angel, told RT.
"The peaceful Ukrainian army came here and "liberated" them but I can't understand what the Army freed them from. These women died horribly," his comrade, Alabai, added.
Self-defense forces said that near the mine - which was abandoned by the Ukrainian forces a few days ago - there are other burial sites which will also be examined.
OSCE monitors have already visited and inspected the burial site.
Prosecutors in the Donetsk People's Republic have started an investigation.