![]() We say to them, take them, they are in body bags, we can give them to the Red Cross, send them to the Belarusian border, to wherever you want, we’ll give you these bodies,” said Vereshchuk. Vereshchuk said Ukraine had the bodies of at least 2,000 Russian soldiers in refrigerated storage in different regions across the country, as well as other cases where there were some charred remains or simply a identification token with a name, but that the Russians were not interested. There are corpses inside ruined tanks they’re burnt and difficult to get out,” he said. “They are lying there in the fields and the Russians don’t take them. Zelenskiy’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the Russians had been using mobile crematoria in Crimea and Belarus to dispose of the remains of some soldiers, and that others were hard to retrieve. Ukraine has not released figures about its own casualties. Nato last week estimated the Russian death toll to be between 7,000 and 15,000. ![]() Russia’s defence ministry last week announced an official death toll of 1,351 for the first month of what Moscow has insisted on calling a “special military operation” in Ukraine, but Kyiv says the real total is more than 16,000. She just said, ‘We’ll work on it,’” said Vereshchuk. I talked to her, and said: ‘Take your bodies away.’ She had no response. “The Russian authorities don’t want these bodies. She said she had spoken by telephone or Zoom to several Russian officials, including the deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, and Tatyana Moskalkova, the Kremlin’s ombudsman for human rights. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, who is responsible for negotiations with Moscow on returning the remains, said that despite repeated offers for Russia to present lists of the missing and have them returned, officials in Moscow were more concerned about covering up the scale of the losses. ![]() “I’m saying this to you as the president of a country that is fighting with Russian soldiers … It’s a war, but they are not animals.” Listen: even when a dog or a cat dies, that’s just not how to behave,” Zelenskiy said in an online interview with Russian journalists on Sunday evening. “We’ve all had a moment in our lives when someone has passed away, maybe not even close people or relatives. ![]()
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