Russia disposing of bodies of own soldiers killed in Ukraine war
Russia disposing of bodies of own soldiers killed in Ukraine war
In its war against Ukraine, Russian army is suffering colossal losses. In the wake of this, Putin regime is coming up with various ways to conceal the true number of KIAs and dispose of their bodies.
The Russian army suffers more and more losses every day. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as of the morning of March 31, Russia’s death toll stood at over 17,000. Meanwhile, the Russian leadership is in no rush to recognize their losses, deliberately and significantly underreporting the numbers. According to the Russian defense ministry, the Ukrainian reports on Russian losses are exaggerated tenfold.
The bodies of Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine are being delivered en mass to Belarus, Crimea, and across the Russian regions bordering Ukraine. Local hospitals in those areas have long been overcrowded with the Russian wounded, while morgue capacities are insufficient to receive more bodies, so mobile crematoriums have been deployed to incinerate the Russian soldiers’ bodies. The move corresponds to an infamous Russian trick of “no body – no official loss to account for.”
Due to the insufficient number of mobile crematoriums, the bodies are now disposed of even in Rostov’s industrial smelting furnaces. The bodies are not getting buried due to unwillingness of commanders to allow for further exhumation.
Mobile crematoria and smelting furnaces are used in order not to allow the bodies being handed to the killed soldiers’ relatives, not to pay the latter compensation and hide the real losses in the war.
The Russian military who died in the first days of the war, whose deaths were initially unrecognized in Russia and whose bodies weren’t initially retrieved from Ukraine, were eventually buried only in March. Every day, hundreds of soldiers who fought and were killed on the territory of Ukraine get buried in different regions of Russia.
The Russian leadership does not name the true death toll. Often, information about their KIAs is concealed, so it can only be found in the regional media or across social media. Often, the bodies are delivered to their families in sealed coffins, without any information provided on the exact date and place of death.
Most of the relatives of the Russian KIAs remain silent about what happened to their sons, husbands, brothers. Almost none of the relatives apply to the Society of Soldiers’ Mothers NGO.
Officials tend to turn the vigil for the fallen soldiers into a «patriotic event.» They say that these men were devoted to their homeland and died for it. In fact, they died for Putin’s criminal regime, which sent them to another country only to get slaughtered.
None of the relatives and friends do anything to resist the bloody regime. Apparently, this is the norm for them when the government claims ownership even of a killed soldier’s body, which can be burned with impunity in crematoria or industrial smelting furnaces. Both those who commit such acts and accept them can hardly be called humans.
Few Russians are already cursing the war unleashed by Putin, feeling sorry for the young guys who died for no reason. However, the «army» of ultra-patriots and online bots is trying to put out any reasonable opinion voiced online.
Many relatives are not even aware of the date of their loved one’s death. The Russians are outraged that the young, inexperienced conscriptswere sent to the war. Judging by the age of the killed soldiers, many contractors barely had time to sign their contract. Now the country’s leadership assures that in the territory of Ukraine, it’s only contracted servicemen who take part in hostilities, which, of course, is a lie.
