It's been at the forefront of revelations about the UK government for quite a while now. It's also far from the only media outlet (along with individuals) that has been making similar reports.
However, having written what I did above, I have found some reports of Russian casualties being shipped around - notably not directly to Russia, but to Belarus:
In Homel, the regional capital, a laboratory for the city's main hospital was refitted earlier this month, with existing equipment being moved out and beds and other medical equipment being brought in, residents said.
Homel residents told RFE/RL that wounded Russian soldiers were being brought to three separate medical facilities in the city, including one specializing in cancer treatment.
A doctor at Mazyr's main city hospital told RFE/RL that the facility was now under guard by police and security agencies, and that doctors had been threatened with firing if they spoke about conditions. The doctor said that all physicians on staff, even those from more specialized professions, had been tasked with treating wounded Russians.
"There are not enough surgeons. Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains," the doctor said. "After someone made a video about it and it went on the Internet, the bodies were loaded at night so as not to attract attention."
At Hospital No. 4 in Homel, officials began to discharge current patients on March 1 in order to make room for wounded Russians, according to multiple residents whom RFE/RL spoke to. "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.
https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-morgues-russian-soldiers/31760144.htmlThis bears out similar reports from other sources. (There's more at the link, but I've hit DU's paragraph limit for media quotes.)
I'd put it this way: we see videos of Zelensky almost every day visiting injured servicepeople and civilians in hospital - and this in war zones. I can't find any reports or evidence that Putin has done anything similar anywhere. If this invasion is such a heroic mission, you'd think he'd want to publicly laud the heroes - and their families.
Instead, we see scenes like this distraught mother of a young Russian conscript serving in Ukraine, who's terribly concerned for her son and herself in fear of the police while she's being interviewed on camera:
It's almost like Putin is ashamed of them all.
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