UKRAINE. August 2023. Childs sliding board next to destroyed apartment building in Izyum, Kharkiv region. The city was heavily damaged during the Russian-Ukrainian war. From March 7, 2022, it was temporarily occupied by the Armed Forces of the Russia. On September 10, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the city from the occupiers. The mass graves near Izyum were found on September 15, 2022, after the liberation of most of the Kharkiv region from Russian troops. During the exhumation, 447 bodies were discovered. They were mostly civilian men, women and children. Most of these people died a violent death, they have clear signs of torture. Bodies were found with ropes around their necks, with their hands tied, with broken limbs and gunshot wounds, and several men had their genitalia amputated.