Local residents help police and war crimes investigators exhume the body of a 15-year-old girl, who local residents said had been executed by Russian forces along with several men whose bodies had been exhumed the day before, in the recently liberated village of Pravdyne, Ukraine on November 29, 2022. As days pass, the elation of the Kherson region’s liberation from Russian occupation has given way to mounting evidence of atrocities, and the sobering reality of battered, barely livable communities from which most civilians fled months ago and may not return anytime soon. (Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
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