An area of some 1.1 square kilometers (less than half a square mile) appears to have been freshly dug over that period in the cemetery's southwestern corner. Another area of just over half a square kilometer was dug in the southeast corner.
It remains unclear were buried in the cemetery during the roughly 7-month period.
The Center for Information Resilience, a London-based nonprofit that specializes in digital investigations and has monitored the Staryi Krym cemetery, estimated that more than 4,600 graves have been dug since the beginning of Russia's war in Ukraine.
The center said it could not estimate the number of bodies interred. The BBC's Panorama program first reported on the center's analysis.
