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5. 7,000 Unclaimed Dead Russian Soldiers Left in Morgues in Ukraine
Mon May 9, 2022, 05:36 PM
May 2022

Complete article at link:

https://www.businessinsider.com/7000-unclaimed-dead-russian-soldiers-left-in-morgues-ukraine-says-2022-4

Russian soldiers in its morgues, as the Kremlin refuses to acknowledge the high death toll.

More than 7,000 dead Russian soldiers are being stored in morgues and refrigerated rail cars across Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the head of Ukraine's presidential administration, previously told The Washington Post.

"They said, 'We don't believe in such quantities. We don't have this number. We're not ready to accept them,'" Arestovych told the paper about the reaction of the Russian authorities.

More than 1,500 dead Russian soldiers are held in morgues in Dnipro, Ukraine, its deputy mayor Mykhailo Lysenko said on the TV channel Current Time on April 13.

According to reports, Russia has also transported thousands of dead soldiers to Belarus from Ukraine to disguise the number of soldiers killed.

NATO estimates that Russia has lost up to 15,000 troops during the war, while Ukraine claims to have killed nearly 20,000.

By comparison, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN this week that Ukraine has lost between 2,500 and 3,000 troops since the war began.

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