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The images are macabre.
Ukrainian soldiers stack bodies in refrigerated wagons.
Recordings that the Reuters news agency was able to take near Kyiv.
It is not known how many Russian dead are stored in such refrigerated trains.
However, the number of dead soldiers seems high.
Volodymyr Lyamzin, Head of Civil-Military Cooperation of Ukraine
»Several hundred bodies of Russian occupying forces are in this refrigerated wagon.
Most are from Kyiv region, some are from Chernihiv and other areas.
It is no secret.
There are many (of these trains)
.
«
The war in Ukraine has claimed thousands of lives since it began on February 24, 2022.
It is not yet clear how many soldiers died.
Russia in particular is silent about the number of forces killed.
At the latest after the end of the war, Ukraine wants to hand over the dead soldiers to Russia.
Volodymyr Lyamzin, Head of Civil-Military Cooperation of Ukraine
"According to the norms of international humanitarian law, after the end of the active phase of the conflict, the parties to the conflict must return the bodies of soldiers of another country."
The Ukrainian army hopes that they too can bury their soldiers.
However, there is currently no communication as to when and where a handover would take place.
