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Local residents of a northeast Ukrainian town are braving mines laid by their former Russian occupiers across graves to mourn and bury their loved ones.

Trostyanets is only around only a 20-mile drive from the Russian border, and was occupied by Russian forces for around a month. The town was retaken by Ukrainian forces in late March but the area has still seen sporadic shelling by Russian forces. According to the local government, Russian forces completely withdrew from the surrounding Sumy region around a week ago.

Nevertheless, fresh remnants of the Russian occupiers are still scattered amongst the main cemetery of the town, which was right across from a makeshift Russian military base. According to cemetery staff, the Russian forces had laid mines randomly across graves, which are still undergoing a process of de-mining.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/16/watch-ukrainians-brave-russian-mined-cemetery-mourn-dead/

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