Putin has mobile crematoriums following his troops.

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[iemanja]

1. What a monster

[chocolatpi]

3. yes, I've called "IT" that.

[Claustrum]

2. It can also be used for the ukraine causalties.

I guess we will never know the real death toll from this atrocity.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Cheaper than shipping the zinc lined coffins used in the Afghanistan war in the 1980s. Same lies tho

The Soviet Union lies about the casualties eroded the last reserve of trust the Politburo had. The families knew the truth.

[brooklynite]

4. Presumably the soldiers who don't return were redeployed to Siberia....or to a farm upstate.

[jmbar2]

9. Where they can run and run free....

[Blue Owl]

5. Stick him in one and fire it up

[Igel]

11. No.

Stick his legs and pelvis into one--still attached to the rest of his body--into one.

Then fire it up.

[Blue Owl]

12. Sounds good -- and make Donny Dollhands watch what happens to diabolical dictators

[Irish_Dem]

6. Most likely to hide civilian casualties, especially women and children.

[hippywife]

13. And to prevent

the Russian people from seeing body bags of their own troops being shipped home.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Won't the Russian people get suspicious when their loved ones are KIA

but no bodies come home?

[hippywife]

16. That would not be the point.

The point is a psychological and political one. Another way to keep unrest among the Russian people as a whole over his actions to as low as possible.

Even here, for two decades there was a ban on photographers being permitted to document the return of our own war dead at Dover AFB for political reasons:

https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/begleiter.dover/index.html

[Irish_Dem]

17. Good points

[hippywife]

19. ???

Not understanding your response.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Sorry, I corrected it. DU keeps adding stuff to the end of a sentence.

It does that for my subject lines.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. There were reports of mobile crematoriums back in the 2015 conflict. Josh Rogin reported it back in

the day, saying he was told by House Intelligence Committee member Mac Thornberry that it was the case. There's a video of a prototype being demonstrated in Belarus from that time, which I assume is what the Defense Ministry is referencing. I can't find any reference to actual field use, though.

[BlackSkimmer]

21. Yes, all the reports of this seem to come back to the 2015 report.

So much bs gets generated in wartime.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. .

So much bs gets generated in wartime.

And a lot of people can't wait to share it.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. Yep, and that's very sad.

[sarcasmo]

10. Cremate the bodies and leave no trace.

[BlackSkimmer]

15. Well, most likely they have families. nt

[lagomorph777]

18. Every time he evaporates one of his own troops, he becomes weaker.