During the Russian Civil War, the bodies of prisoners who had been injured and poisoned by the White Army's Denikin forces were scattered around before the White Army withdrew from Bakhmut in Ukraine in 1919.

　　During the Russian Civil War, the bodies of prisoners who had been poisoned by the White Army's Denikin forces lay scattered around the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine before the White Army withdrew in 1919. The bodies of the injured prisoners had been mutilated and cut up. The White Army was an armed force of the anti-Bolshevik government that fought against the Red Army of Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War.

　　In Luhansk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine, the Cheka (Soviet secret police) killed all the former officers they found in the town. Engineers and technicians were assaulted by workers. When the White Army retreated, the workers attacked the engineers and technicians. Even those who sympathized with the Soviet government attacked them, saying that it was time for revenge. Many tragic deaths resulted. The Soviet government also did not fully trust the engineers and technicians who had sided with the White Army. In December 1919, half of the mining experts fled the Donbass region with the defeated White Army. In Kamensk, east of Luhansk, the bodies were left in the streets for several days.

　　White terror in Russia refers to the systematic violence and mass killings carried out by the White Army during the Russian Civil War (1917-1923). It began after the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 and continued until the White Army was defeated by the Red Army. The White Army, supported by the Triple Entente, fought against the Bolshevik forces, while the Bolsheviks concentrated on their own Red terror. It is estimated that a total of around 300,000 people died as a result of this series of organized acts of violence. After Kornilov was killed in April 1918, leadership of the volunteer army passed to Anton Denikin.