It has been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Since then, there have been almost constant fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces – fighting that has claimed hundreds of civilian lives, forced over a million people to flee and led to enormous material destruction.
Several thousand soldiers have also lost their lives as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities are now claiming that Russian corpses are starting to pile up in the streets.
Returning to the war
– Big problem
Exactly how many Russians died during the war is unknown. Russia has not released new figures since March 2, when it claimed 498 Russian soldiers had been killed.
However, NATO believes that this number is between 7,000 and 15,000.
– Russian corpses are a big problem. There are thousands of them, says adviser to the country’s interior minister, Viktor Andrusiv CNN.
He continues:
– The Russians will not take the bodies. I actually do not know what to do with them in the coming weeks.
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Mobile crematoria
Ukrainian authorities have previously claimed that the Russians have brought mobile crematoria to the front to hide the loss of their own soldiersso that they do not come home in coffins, but rather are reported as missing.
They (Russia, journ. Note) will not show the bodies of their families. They do not want to tell the mothers that theirs is dying here, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has previously stated.
Warns: May be more desperate
The allegations about mobile crematoria do not surprise adviser at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Arve Hansen.
– The regime is so cynical that burning and destroying bodies to hide the losses does not surprise me. It fits in very well with the context of other news coming from Russia now. It is forbidden to talk about war operations that have not been approved by the Russian Ministry of Defense. They try to gag all the negative reviews of Russian warfare, he has previously told Dagbladet.
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