UKRAINE IS PREPARING TO RETURN ‘HUNDREDS’ OF BODIES OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS

Sat 14 May 2022:

Ukraine has collected the bodies of “hundreds” of Russian servicemen and placed them in refrigerated train wagons to be returned home.

“Most of them were brought from the Kyiv region, there are some from Chernihiv region and from some other regions too.” Volodymyr Lyamzin, the top civil-military liaison officer, told Reuters.

”According to the norms of international humanitarian law, and Ukraine is strictly following them, after the active phase of the conflict is over, sides have to return the bodies of the military of another country.”

“Ukraine is ready to return the bodies to the aggressor,” he added.

Ukraine’s military has released photographs of several hundred bodies that were being stored at a facility on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Earlier, a pontoon bridge and parts of an armoured battalion had been destroyed at the Siverskyi Donets River by Ukraine as per the British defence ministry.

Predicting “extremely tough weeks”, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in a Facebook post “We are entering a new, long phase of the war.”

A month after forcing Russian invaders to abort an advance on Kyiv, Ukrainian soldiers have driven their adversaries out of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.

In retaliation, Russia shelled surrounding settlements, including Dergachi, some 10 kilometers (six miles) north of Kharkiv, shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 plane, and shut down the Kremenchuk oil plant in central Ukraine.

“I can’t call it anything but a terrorist act,” Dergachi Mayor Vyacheslav Zadorenko told Reuters after missiles destroyed a building meant to distribute aid.

Ukraine claims 27,200 Russian troops killed since start of war

Some 27,200 Russian soldiers have so far been killed during the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military claimed on Saturday.

At least 300 more Russian troops were killed over the past day, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.

It said Ukrainian forces have destroyed 200 Russian aircraft, 163 helicopters, 411 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,218 tanks and 2,934 armored vehicles since the war began on Feb. 24.

Russian President Vladimir Putin described the attack on Ukraine as a “special military operation” aimed at demilitarizing a security threat to Russia.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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