Footage appears to show military ambulances full of dead and wounded Russian soldiers driving through the Belarusian city of Homel (Picture: Twitter/ASLuhn/EPA)
The corpses of Russian soldiers Ki**ed in Ukraine are being moved to Belarus by train and planes in the dead of night to avoid attracting attention, it has been reported.
Footage obtained by Radio Free Europe (RFE) appears to show military ambulances driving through the Belarusian city of Homel in early March.
They are said to be filled with wounded and dead Russian soldiers, according to residents and medics in the border regions.
RFE quoted one medical official who said more than 2,500 soldiers’ corpses had been shipped from Homel back to Russia by trains or by plane as of March 13.
The figure could not be independently verified.
But the Homel region may offer some clues about the death count.
Medics in Homel, Belarus, claim dead Russian soldiers are being shipped to the city in the dead of night
Russian troops arrive in Belarus ahead of joint military drills
Homel, Belarus’ second largest city after Minsk, borders Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south.
The country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko supports Putin’s war and allowed a deployment of major Russian military units in the country as a springboard to get into Ukraine.
Residents in Homel told RFE that wounded Russian soldiers were being brought to three separate medical facilities in the city and local patients were being discharged early to manage the influx.
‘There are so many wounded Russians there – it’s just a horror. Terribly disfigured. It is impossible to listen to their moans throughout the whole hospital,’ said one resident who was treated in the Homel hospital.
Another Homel doctor said there was growing concern among city residents that there could be shortage of everyday medications for the general population.
Russian corpses are reportedly being shipped to towns that border Ukraine (Picture: Metro Graphics)
There are other unverified reports of morgues and hospitals filling up with maimed or dead Russian soldiers in border areas.
Locals in Mazyr, a Belerusian city about 100 kilometres northwest of Ukraine’s Chernobyl, have described morgues ‘overflowing’ with Putin’s troops.
One eyewitness told RFE: ‘Passengers at the Mazyr train station were shocked by the number of corpses being loaded on the train. After people started shooting video, the military caught them and ordered them to remove it.’
It comes after a human rights worker in Mazyr described surging hospital admissions of maimed Russian soldiers.
