Ukraine’s government says it has discovered the bodies of nearly 1,000 civilians and soldiers buried in territories recaptured from Russia by a Ukrainian counteroffensive. About half of the bodies were discovered in a mass grave in Izium in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.

Overnight, Russia’s military carried out fresh attacks on power plants, this time in central Ukraine. In southern Ukraine, officials in the Russian-occupied Kherson region say more than 70,000 people have evacuated their homes ahead of a looming battle for control over Kherson city.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has deployed more of its forces near its border with Belarus, a key Russian ally.