NEWSMAX April 22, 2022: New satellite images appear to show expansion of mass graves near the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol which the city council claims could hold as many as 9,000 bodies.

Maxar Technologies released five photographs dated between March 19 and April 3, which show large pits progressively dug along the lower side of a road in Manhush, a municipality more than 10 miles outside of Mariupol.

"The occupying forces have dug ... a number of mass graves," said Petro Andrushenko, spokesman for Mayor Vadym Boychenko, on his Telegram account. "Each grave measures 100 feet wide and 100 feet long. Russians are using trucks to deliver the bodies. Then, they simply dump them, a couple at a time."