Ukraine’s Security Service to identify thousands of Communist victims buried near Kiev

From Axis Information and Analysis:

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) officials have announced that they have determined the identities of 14,191 people killed by order of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and buried in the Bykivnya forest outside of Kiev, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
SBU archives official Professor Vasyl Danylenko told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service that there were 18 places in Ukraine that had been used to execute thousands of people during the Stalin era. He said Bykivnya was heavily guarded in Soviet times and, though many executions were carried out in Kiev, the dead were buried in mass graves at Bykivnya during the night.
Before World War II, most executions were carried out directly in the forest with the victims lined up before ready-dug graves. Danylenko said of the other 18 mass burial sites in Ukraine that have been identified, some are being used as parks, some have department stores built on them, or are serving as city cemeteries, according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.