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Drones, mines and rotting corpses: The difficult mission of bringing dead soldiers home in Ukraine
On a hilltop in the Ukrainian province of Donetsk lie seven Russian soldiers. Three are charred and four are decomposing. Maggots crawl out of the skull cavities, and flies completely cover their bodies. The smell of decay is overwhelming, but the wind manages to carry it toward the fields that extend from the hill. Oleksii Yukov, a soldier who leads a team of body collectors, is pleased because among the ashes of one of the corpses are fragment…
MOSCOW - Russian officials are banning families of soldiers killed in fighting in Ukraine from opening coffins containing the remains of their loved ones, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reports on its website. Witnesses say survivors face criminal prosecution for trying to identify their loved ones.
Death in occupation: how to establish the fact of death of a person in a temporarily occupied territory - clarificationThe Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has clarified the procedure for establishing the fact of death in the temporarily occupied territories, since certificates issued by the Russian authorities are not recognized. To do this, you must apply to any local court of Ukraine outside the occupied territory, submitting an application and…
For more than three years, the Ukrainians have been fighting back against the Russian aggressors. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have already died in war - and their families have remained behind. About the fate of the soldiers' widows.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klymenko told about this at a briefing on June 23. Russia transfers the bodies of our dead in a mutilated, decaying state, violating the conditions of storage of the bodies,” he said.According to him, in some places the bodies are so fragmented that several DNA examinations are required for identification, and the body of one person can be composed of dozens of parts. In 20 cases this …
The Russian Federation deliberately complicates the identification of the dead by transferring mixed or mutilated remains
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