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Ukrainian authorities are accumulating the our bodies of Russian troopers from just lately liberated cities and loading them into refrigerated rail automobiles in hopes of exchanging them for captured Ukrainian troops.

In Kharkiv, the place Russian forces have been pushed again throughout the border, 60 our bodies have been recovered, based on a report on Tuesday. The our bodies are being recognized by way of DNA evaluation in addition to by analyzing tattoos, bank cards, and paperwork carried by the deceased. A few of the useless troopers present indicators that they have been deliberately killed by members of their very own items or dedicated suicide, based on the report.

“We’re gathering all of the paperwork, all of the bank cards. Something which might assist us establish the physique,” Anton Ivannikov, captain of the military-civil cooperation department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, advised Reuters.

“Sooner or later it will inform us which soldier, which brigade was on this area, for additional alternate,” he mentioned.

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Ukraine hopes the recovered our bodies can be utilized as a part of prisoner exchanges or exchanges for Ukrainian our bodies. The our bodies of troopers associated to high-ranking Russian officers might be particularly wished by the Kremlin.

Not all of the recovered our bodies seem to have suffered combat-related deaths.

In Mala Rohan, east of the town of Kharkiv, the our bodies of two Russian troopers have been dragged out of a properly, and one soldier appeared to have their palms tied, based on the report. Ivannikov claimed it was an indication the troopers might have been punished for deserting.

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One other physique was discovered within the basement of a house in Mala Rohan. He seemed to be left alone when Russian forces retreated and “most certainly, he shot himself,” based on Ivannikov.

A report final week indicated that fairly than treating wounded troops, Russian commanders have been capturing and killing them on the battlefield. A video of captured Russian intelligence troops, made by a Ukrainian journalist, exhibits captured troopers explaining how commanders “completed off their wounded.”

The our bodies collected in Kharkiv will likely be taken on the refrigerated rail automobiles to Kyiv, the place negotiations on prisoner exchanges happen.