A town in Siberia can’t bring dead soldiers home

Due to the deaths of Russian soldiers in the war against Ukraine, a city in the Russian region of Irkutsk has run out of money to bring dead soldiers back. Irkutsk is located in Siberia.

According to Newsweek, this comes from an X account that shares updates about the war in Ukraine. The account is ChrisO_wiki and has about 200,000 followers on X.

This was also reportedly shared on the Telegram channel of the People of Baikal, which describes itself as an independent media center that tells the stories of the people of the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia in eastern Siberia. .

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Too far away

According to X’s account, residents of the city of Ust-Kut in the Irkutsk region are being asked for donations to transport soldiers home.

– So many Russian soldiers from the Irkutsk region have been killed that the local authorities have run out of money to transport them back to their relatives. The local population now has to crowdfund body bags and body transport, writing the account on X.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense will initially finance the costs of transporting bodies, but this applies only to airports that are able to handle military transport aircraft, writes Newsweek.

The town of Ust-Kut is about 300 kilometers from the nearest military airport, which means that the bodies have to be transported by ground transport.

Body bags required

It is said that the fund that was supposed to bring the soldiers home ran out of money, after spending part of it on village education.

One of the soldiers’ wives is said to have exposed herself on social media, according to Newsweek. She criticized the Russian Ministry of Defense for not helping to bring the soldiers home.

– We need a large number of body bags for evacuees! It takes a long time to wait for delivery. When they leave to evacuate, they can take the usual number with them, but in reality it will turn out to be more than usual, the woman is said to have written.