Hundreds of Russian soldiers have undergone DNA examination, partly to help with inquiries into war crimes in once-occupied areas
Twice in its 90-year history the courtyard of Kharkiv’s morgue has overflowed with the dead. The first was during the Holodomor, Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine, regarded in this country as the Kremlin’s first attempt at genocide against its people. The second was just after the Russian invasion began a year ago and Ukraine’s second city emptied of the living, fleeing the onslaught.
