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TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2022, 08:01 PM Mar 2022

Mobile cremation chambers: For war crimes, for soldiers without families, some with families?

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Zelenskyy Says Russians Are Carrying Cremation Chambers Into Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Russian troops are lugging mobile cremation chambers with them as they continue their assault across the country, allegedly to dispose of their own dead and obscure the true number of casualties they’ve incurred.

“These guys are carrying those cremation chambers for themselves,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference with reporters in Kyiv where he lamented that young Russian soldiers are being used as “cannon fodder.”

“It’s inhumane,” he said.

Zelenskyy said a large number of Russians are believed to have died in the conflict so far, but he alleged that no one is keeping track.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/zelenskyy-russia-cremation-chambers-ukraine_n_6220ea42e4b0ae4ab9c8e705



1) They might be used to conceal some war crimes or torture victims.

2) They might be used on soldiers that have no families to return home to in order to keep 'official' death tallies low.

3) They might be used on soldiers with families, but then what percentage of them would cause an outcry?

4) They might be used because of the callous nature Russian leaders view their citizens and military.

5) They might be used because they don't plan on taking any dead back home.


I'm sure there are a few more reasons, some quite perverse that only deranged people contemplate.

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