Contamination with bodies of Russian soldiers, Ukraine
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Infection of Ukraine with the bodies of Russian soldiers.
Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have not taken the bodies of their dead soldiers. This poses a great threat to the ecology of Ukraine. Russia will not take care of the removal of the dead soldiers. They remain and pose a great threat, primarily environmental. Groups of Ukrainians, both military and civilian, searched areas previously occupied by Russian forces before they were forced to retreat. Volunteers hope to find the bodies of Russian soldiers left on the battlefield. Hundreds have already been collected, and hundreds more lie in swamps and trenches. “We are ready to give all the bodies that we found in exchange for our own,” says an officer of the military-civilian cooperation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Damage to the environment as a result of the non-burial of the bodies of servicemen of the RF Armed Forces.
Unburied bodies can have several harmful effects on the environment, including: ● Spread of diseases: Unburied bodies can be a source of infectious diseases, such as cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery. When these bodies are left exposed, they can attract flies and other insects, which can then spread diseases to nearby areas. ● Pollution of soil and water: Decomposing bodies can release harmful chemicals and bacteria into the soil and groundwater, which can contaminate nearby water sources and make them unsafe for consumption. ● Increased greenhouse gas emissions: As bodies decompose, they release methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. ● Attraction of scavengers: Unburied bodies can attract scavengers, such as vultures and dogs, which can spread disease and pose a threat to public safety. Overall, unburied bodies can have significant negative impacts on both the environment and public health. Proper burial or cremation is necessary to prevent these harmful effects.
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Volunteers are looking for the bodies of soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine.
Author: Ukrainian volunteers "Black Tulip"
Ukrainian volunteers have united in a group called "Black Tulip" and are searching for the bodies of dead Russian soldiers in the war in Ukraine. They do this to subsequently exchange the corpses of the invaders for the bodies of Ukrainian defenders. This is reported by the British edition of The Guardian in its report. Volunteers are looking for the bodies of soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine. For example, in the abandoned village of Krasnopolye, Donetsk region, the group found two bodies of decomposed Russians, which were probably left in the basement by their colleagues. The goal of the volunteers is to collect the bodies of the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces to exchange them for the dead Ukrainian defenders since a soldier cannot be officially declared dead until there is a body. The process of extracting them is extremely risky because the liberated settlements are littered with anti-personnel mines. Identification of the bodies can be a problem: the bodies of Russian Armed Forces soldiers are sometimes found burned. This is done by residents for reasons of hygiene, and sometimes by the Russian military, who are trying to hide their losses.
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2023
March 14
Ukrainian volunteers have united in a group called "Black Tulip" and are searching for the bodies of the dead Russian occupiers. They do this to subsequently exchange the bodies of the invaders for the bodies of Ukrainian defenders. This is reported by the British edition of The Guardian in its report.
February 22
The journalists learned that since February a group of 10 volunteers had collected the bodies of the invaders. Since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory and Ukraine, there have been exchanges of bodies of soldiers between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The media said that in Russia they limited the issuance of the bodies of the soldiers killed in Ukraine, so as not to sow panic due to the large amount of "cargo 200". There are so many bodies of invaders that morgues cannot cope with such a volume of work.
February 17
British intelligence reported that Russia lost about 175,000 soldiers in the war in Ukraine. In most cases, Russians are killed or injured due to artillery strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
2022
Russia was ousted from part of the territories of Ukraine occupied by it. Since then, small groups of Ukrainians, both military and civilian, have been trying to find and collect the bodies of the invaders to send them back to Russia, FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports from Kharkiv, Ukraine.