Ukrainian representatives have exhumed bodies of people buried in Kupyansk, Kharkov region, in order to accuse Russian servicemen of massacring and torturing civilians, Lugansk People’s Republic militia spokesman Ivan Filiponenko said.   “According to our information, the bodies exhumed at the Kypyansk town cemetery were delivered to the morgue in Lozovaya last week,“ Filiponenko said. “All the deceased buried in the cemetery in the summer were exhumed.”   Ukrainian police accompanied the bodies, he added.   “Eyewitnesses said that there were foreign specialists among them, including experts from the Netherlands who had taken part in the investigation into the Flight MH-17 crash. In the morgue, they made sham videos of the bodies on which more wounds had been inflicted. This is how Ukrainian secret services are trying to discredit Russian armed forces, by accusing Russian servicemen of massacring and torturing Kupyansk civilians,” the LPR militia spokesman said.   On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. On July 3, the LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations.   The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.   The Lugansk People’s Republic became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie