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"They" say the opinions of Russians will turn when the bodies come home. Then I see the bodies of dead Russians. I think they are not getting the bodies of the soldiers that are killed on purpose.
Sad.
highplainsdem
(48,728 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)That would instill confidence in the Russia troops.....
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Creepy!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Didnt work.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)So I wonder if the Russians have been seen burning their dead.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)Disaffected
(4,507 posts)would be faster and consume less fuel.
quakerboy
(13,901 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)There is no way they can hide fatalities from the families.
What are they going to do, say they ran away to Never Never land?
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)and, most importantly, no photos to show Russian people.
Sure there will be grieving families. But Putin is hoping to delay that by days or weeks from when their soldier boys went MIA.
"Maybe your son was taken prisoner by those Nazi usurpers!"
The photos of dead American soldiers and the planes full of bodies coming back to the USA turned middle class America against Vietnam.
This is about controlling the visuals.
dchill
(38,321 posts)It takes time to burn a body. Uncomfortably true.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)Link to tweet
If I was a soldier and knew that my generals had so little faith in me that they followed me around the battlefield with a mobile crematorium, or I was the mother or father of a son, potentially deployed into a combat zone, and my government thought that the way to cover up losses was a mobile crematorium, Id be deeply, deeply worried, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told the paper.
Referring to the footage from 2013 which shows a transportable crematorium for biological waste, Wallace added that "it is a very chilling side effect of how the Russians view their forces." Wallace recalled this is not the first time Russia will be dispatching mobile crematoriums "to follow troops around the battlefield." He noted, "They have done things previously", which "probably says everything you need to know about the Russian regime."....
According to the former Ukrainian Defence security head, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, these vehicles can cremate "8-10 bodies per day." Speaking to Ukrainian media in 2015, Nalyvaichenko had said, "Every day, the hotline of the Security Service of Ukraine records a great number of calls from dozens of Russian citizens who are looking for their relatives or Russian soldiers who have been sent to the territory of Ukraine [ ] The Ukrainian government will be humane and will return the bodies of the Russian soldiers to their mothers with all documents and personal effects," Snopes reported.