Sources suggest that the bodies of slain Russian soldiers are being surreptitiously transported back to Russia via Belarus on special flights, trains, and buses in order to avoid attracting attention.
Passengers at a train station in Belarus were said to be “shocked” by the amount of bodies being placed onto trains, while hospital officials warned of “overflowing” morgues.
A video appears to show a convoy of Russian buses bringing corpses through the Belarusian city of Homel, with the ‘V’ sign on the side.
On various Russian military vehicles, the ‘V’ emblem has been used to refer to Belarus.
A separate disturbing video appears to show a train carriage full with people wrapped in plastic and dressed in Russian clothes.
The video was provided by the news outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which stated that several of the remains belonged to Russian servicemen as young as 20 years old.
The carriage came to a halt north of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, in the city of Voznesensk.
Due to its strategic importance as a predominantly Russian-speaking city next to Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear power facility, Voznesensk has been the scene of violent fighting this month.
In early March, a video shot in Homel shows a column of military ambulances travelling through the city.
Meanwhile, personnel at the region’s clinical facility claim that around 2,500 Russian soldiers’ bodies have already been returned to Russia.
Since the Russian invasion began on February 24, Ukraine’s military claims that over 14,000 Kremlin servicemen have been killed.
According to one US intelligence analyst, the death toll is estimated to be over 7,000 people, with an additional 20,000 people injured.
The Russian Defense Ministry, on the other side, claims that the death toll is around 500.
Medical personnel in Homel, which is fewer than 20 kilometres from the Ukraine-Belarus border, have described “overflowing” morgues.
Passengers at the train station in Mazyr, Belarus, were “shocked” by the amount of corpses being placed aboard the train, according to a local.
“After people began filming video, the soldiers apprehended them and forced them to remove it,” they continued.
“There are not enough surgeons,” a doctor at Mazyr’s main hospital warned. “Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains.
“After someone made a video about it and it went on the internet, the bodies were loaded at night so as not to attract attention.”
Officials at a hospital in Homel are alleged to have begun discharging patients as early as March 1 due to the sheer number of wounded Russian soldiers.
A patient said: “There are so many wounded Russians there – it’s just a horror. Terribly disfigured.
“It is impossible to listen to their moans throughout the whole hospital.”
