Dead Russian Tank Crew

Dead Russian Tank Crew – The Ukrainian government has claimed that the Russian army sent mobile crematoriums to burn their own dead. “The Russian people are dying here, nobody is counting them, people are dying in this war. Do you know they have brought a cremation chamber with them?

They’re not going to show the bodies to their families. They’re not going to tell the mothers that their children died here,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters in a briefing on March 3. The gruesome scenes on the road were more than simply the terrible deaths of human beings who had become victims of President Putin’s decision to invade.

Dead Russian Tank Crew

It is also a crime scene, with evidence that should be collected and preserved for an investigation whenever this war ends. In a small village, a Russian tank and two armored personnel carriers were broken and burned.

Some of the wreckage was still smoking. The force of the weapon that destroyed the tank blew off its turret and main gun, which lay upside down and half buried in a crater around 15 yards away.

Ukraine and Western leaders have in recent days accused Russian forces of committing atrocities against civilians in devastated areas around Kyiv that were under occupation – with Bucha proving to be the site of the most egregious examples of war crimes thus far.

Russian state media reports have stuck to the 498 figure and few funerals have been documented in the country, where censorship of the war has been taken to an extreme with a new law criminalizing reporting contradicting the Kremlin.

In the absence of information about Russia’s dead, Ukrainians have been trying to fill in the gaps. Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating civilian massacres in northwestern suburbs such as Bucha, Makariv and Borodyanka, but the Prosecutor-General’s Office said Tuesday it was also looking into events in the Brovary district, which lies to the northeast.

It is now thought that Putin is replenishing and massing his forces in the east of Ukraine in order to be able to score a battlefield win in the Donbas and claim a face saving triumph in time for Victory Day on May 9, when Russia celebrates its defeat.

of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. “It becomes dangerous to cover news in Ukraine,” Olga Bychkova, Echo of Moscow’s deputy editor in chief, told USA TODAY. She noted that Russia’s new law targeting speech is “blurry” and “allows authorities to go after anybody.”

They were found walking back down the road, and the woman told her family that Maksim was shouting that a child was in the car when he was killed. Both survivors, according to the Bugatti drone unit, are now safe but deeply traumatized.

Mykolaiv was among the first regional capitals to be attacked after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. After pushing into the urban center, Russian troops have been forced out by Ukraine’s military, leaving a trail of blackened combat vehicles and tanks.

in their wake. But the battle for the city, a cornerstone in Russia’s westward quest along the Black Sea coast to Odesa, is still raging and it’s unclear how long Ukrainian forces will be able to fend off the assault.

“The problem with Russian bodies is really huge. It’s thousands of them. Before the war, the weather was cold, it was okay, but now we have problems because Russians don’t want to take the bodies,” Andrusiv said.

“I actually don’t know what we will do in the next weeks with their bodies.” Neither side in this war is open about the number of casualties suffered. We’ve spoken to several Ukrainian families who say their own government has been less than helpful in recovering the remains of Ukrainian soldiers from the battlefield.

Their deaths were filmed by a Ukrainian drone on March 7, operated by the Bugatti unit of Territorial Defense. The unit released the video, which was republished by news organizations around the world. It caused outrage because it showed the cold-blooded killing of a man who had raised his arms to show he was harmless, in the classic gesture of surrender.

“The stance of the Russian Federation is tough <...>. But the position of the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief and Ukraine as a whole is also tough. So, the negotiations will go hard, but they will continue,” Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office Mikhail Podolyak reportedly said during a press briefing on Friday.

The emplacement where the tank was dug in has a clear arc of fire across the area where the 13 bodies are lying. The tank has gone but debris was left by its crew, including Russian army field rations.

In the woods nearby is at least one other tank, which has been burned out after being hit by an anti-tank missile. Weeks after they failed to seize Ukraine’s capital, the remains of Russian troops are still being discovered in and around the villages they passed through or occupied near the capital, Kyiv.

But Ukraine says Russia shows little interest in getting them back. One of the most searing, early images of the war in Ukraine was of a dead Russian soldier, his face and body obscured by a dusting of newly fallen snow.

The picture, shot by New York Times photojournalist Tyler Hicks, captured the anonymity of the more than 150,000 Russians sent to fight their neighbors — and the anxiety of Russian families desperate to find out any information about their fate.

More burnt cars and dead bodies line the road for the next few hundred yards. No video has emerged to show what happened. A credible working assumption for any investigation must be that the other dead people were killed by the tank crew, or other Russian soldiers.

The governor has called for the bodies to be placed in refrigerators and sent back to Russia for identification through DNA testing. But, a month into the war, it is still unclear how or if the remains of soldiers are being repatriated to Russia, where reports about the death toll have largely been silenced.

The country has cracked down on any information about the realities of the bloody war, restricting access to Western media reports, as well as the social networks Twitter and Facebook, in Russian territory. A website and Telegram channel established by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, aimed at Russian families, publishes a steady stream of photos of dead soldiers and captured young men, sometimes alongside their identity cards.

The name of the site, 200rf.com, is a grim nod to Gruz-200, or Cargo-200, a military code word that came into use in the 1980s during the war in Afghanistan, used by the Soviets for the bodies of soldiers.

placed in zinc-lined coffins for transport. But identifying dead Russian soldiers has been a difficult task. Andrusiv said only 30 have been found on the Telegram channel by their relatives, who scan through gruesome images of those killed in action for clues about whether their loved ones are alive or dead.

Ukrainian forces send Andrusov images of deserted bodies, but they are often unrecognizable and have no documents on them. That number tallies with information shared with CNN by US and NATO officials, who gave a recent estimate that Russian casualties range from between 3,000 and 10,000.

Ukrainian officials have claimed the toll is even higher, at more than 15,000. CNN has been unable to verify the overall number of Russian deaths. However, he said he spoke to European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the meeting and said he had impressed on them the ‘need for more such meetings’ to directly express European outrage at Russia’s actions.

The bodies, the BBC discovered in an investigation this month, are of Maksim Iowenko and his wife Ksjena. They were part of a convoy of 10 civilian vehicles who were trying to escape the Russians and get to Kyiv.

Some answers already exist for a couple who were killed by the Russians and left to decompose on March 7. Their rusty, shrapnel riddled car lies in the road next to one of the petrol stations, reduced to a shell by fire.

Next to it are the burnt and twisted remains of a body that is just about recognizable as the remains of a man. A wedding ring is still on the corpse’s finger. Stretched out inside the hulk of their car is what is left of the incinerated body of a woman, the mouth opened in what looks like a scream.

The car is now burnt out, but it was not on fire after the attack. One hypothesis must be that the bodies and the car were set on fire by the Russians to destroy the evidence of what they had done.

The Bugatti Unit has submitted its drone video to the Ukrainian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police in London. As soon as the car stopped, Maksim jumped out and raised his hands. Within seconds he was shot dead.

His wife was killed in the car. Also in the car were their six-year-old son and the elderly mother of one of Maksim’s friends. Both of them survived and were eventually released by the Russian soldiers.

Viktor Andrusiv, an adviser to Ukraine’s internal affairs minister and the creator and coordinator of the channel, also known as “Look for Your Own,” said he launched the initiative to help Russian families track down information about their soldiers.

“We are not making war against the Russian people. And I don’t think they should suffer because of their regime, which lies to them and says everything is good, no one is dying,” he told CNN.

“It’s a way for us to bring them some truth.” So the refrigerated train in Kyiv is still filling up, and there are more in other cities close to the fighting. For the Ukrainian military who recover and store the bodies, there is little sympathy: the dead are enemy soldiers – invaders.

Attempts have been made to destroy the other bodies. Some have been left to rot where they were killed. But other corpses have been piled up and surrounded by tires. Charred clothing indicates attempts were made to set fires around them.

Tires are flammable and must have been placed there as an accelerant. Footage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world.

Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation. Exactly how many Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine remains a mystery.

The official line from Russia’s defense ministry was 498 military personnel until Monday, when pro-Putin Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published a report updating the toll to 9,861. The figure, which was attributed to the ministry and later retracted by the paper — which claimed it was hacked — has not been confirmed by the Kremlin, whose spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday told CNN: “As far as the numbers are concerned, we agreed

from the very beginning that we do not divulge the information.” “The problem with Russian bodies is really huge. It’s thousands of them. Before the war, the weather was cold, it was okay but now we have problems… I actually don’t know what we will do in the next weeks.”

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer is set to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday following his visit to the war-torn Bucha over the weekend (pictured), as well as having spoken to the leaders of Turkey, Germany and the European Union

“Just now in the Kiev region, near Severinovka, Russian occupation troops started a fight with… Russian occupation forces. As a result, 9 tanks and 4 BTR were destroyed thanks to ‘friendly fire,’ the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Facebook post.

“That saved us 13 Javelin accordingly.”