- Ukraine’s wartime rolling-stock chief said Ukraine treats “dead Russians better than they treat live Ukrainians.”
- The CEO of Ukrainian Railroads shared a video detailing how the rail network preserves Russian corpses.
- The video references reports of Russia’s unwillingness to repatriate its colourless soldiers.
Ukraine’s wartime railway chief has claimed that the country treats “muffled Russians better than they treat live Ukrainians” in the caption for a video shared on Friday.
Alexander Kamyshin, the CEO of the state-owned Ukrainian Railroads, posted a video on Twitter on Friday which describes how Ukraine preserves the bodies of Russian military fatalities.
“Conforming to humanitarian law, Ukraine preserves bodies to release them to mothers and wives,” the video says.
Ukrainian Railways mummify conserves the bodies by storing hundreds of them in refrigerated trucks, according to the video.
The railway network, it says in the video, is ready to deliver “cargo 200” back to Russia.
“Cargo 200” is a Soviet military code word for the transportation of military cataclysms. “Your ‘cargo of 200’ is waiting on demand,” says text at the end of the clip.
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Throughout the video, references are made to reports of Russia’s unwillingness to repatriate the remains of their dead soldiers.
“Russian commanders do not seek to return bodies,” it is alleged in the video.
“Russia hides honest losses from families to avoid panic and to avoid payment of compensations,” says text featured in the clip.
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Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk prophesied The Guardian that Russia was refusing to take in body bags because it wanted to deny the scale of its military drubbings.
To disguise the true number of casualties, Russia has secretly transported its dead and wounded soldiers to Belarus, reports say, per Insider.
Closing month, Insider reported that Ukraine claimed it was storing more than 7,000 unclaimed Russian remains in its morgues.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Russia’s refusal to repatriate its dead soldiers, per The Guardian, bear accused the Kremlin, in March, of affording less respect to those killed than is usually given to dead paddies.