During the Russian occupation, Izyum served as a base for Kremlin troops to attack the Donetsk region. After the liberation of the city, Ukrainian police find an abandoned hospital. In the filthy rooms, the officers find bloody uniforms and drugs that have long since expired.
In the liberated city of Izyum, the Ukrainian national police said they inspected a building that Russian troops are said to have used as a makeshift field hospital. According to this, the occupiers set up hospital rooms in the basement of the house. According to traces of blood, the injured soldiers were apparently treated on the floor in unsanitary conditions, a statement said.
In addition to bloody uniforms and an installed booby trap, the investigators are said to have found bandages, syringes and medicines during the search, some of which had an expiry date dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. Police videos and photos show filthy rooms full of boxes, old boots, clothes and medicine packs. The information cannot be independently verified. The national police are now trying to find out which people were treated in the hospital.
The Russian armed forces occupied the strategically important transport hub Izyum in early April. The city of Moscow then served as a supply center for advances into the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian army liberated Izyum on September 10 as part of their Kharkiv offensive and discovered more than 400 new graves. According to the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov, 30 of the exhumed bodies showed signs of torture. The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the atrocities. A commission of inquiry is to deal with the graves on behalf of the United Nations.
