More Than 2,500 Corpses Of Russian Troops Sent To Belarus In Dead Of Night

The bodies of more than 2,500 Russian soldiers have been transported to Belarus under the cover of darkness to disguise the true number of casualties in Ukraine, doctors have suggested, Sarah Newey reported for UK’s The Telegraph.

Photo Insert: Locals in the Homel, a region in southeastern Belarus less than 150 miles north of Kyiv, have told of hospital wards crammed full of “terribly disfigured” soldiers and morgues overflowing with corpses

Locals in the Homel, a region in southeastern Belarus less than 150 miles north of Kyiv, have told of hospital wards crammed full of “terribly disfigured” soldiers and morgues overflowing with corpses, as Russia quietly transports its wounded and dead across the border.

Russia acknowledged on March 2 that nearly 500 soldiers had been killed and 1,597 injured but has offered no updates since. Meanwhile US intelligence this week put the figure at 7,000 – an estimate deemed “conservative” – while Ukraine claims 14,000 Russians have so far died.

One doctor at Homel’s regional clinical hospital told Radio Free Europe (RFE) that, by March 13, more than 2,500 bodies had been shipped by train or plane back to Russia from the region, though The Telegraph has been unable to independently verify the figure.

Another medic in Mazyr, a townhome to 100,000 people, added that efforts to transport bodies back to Russia were increasingly taking place under the cover of darkness to minimize unwanted scrutiny.

“Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains,” the doctor said. “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.”

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