by Fabrizio Dragosei
They are very young and fill the health facilities and morgues of towns near the Ukrainian border. A doctor: After people tried to film the corpses being loaded on the trains, they only started these operations at night
Wounded and dead Russians, often very young conscripts, fill the hospitals and mortuaries of Russian and Belarusian border towns. In particular, many trucks and ambulances go to centers in Belarus such as Narovlya on the edge of the Chernobyl radioactive zone. And for two reasons: because these locations are closest to the northern front, the one around Kyiv, and because it avoids showing the results of the Kremlindefined military special operation in Russia.
According to Deutsche Welle, many of the injured were victims of explosions and fires and were taken to hospitals in very serious condition. Some testimonies also spoke of mortuaries now overflowing with corpses. In the town of Mozyr, near the border, the morgue could no longer take in the dead on March 3. A resident told Radio Krym.Realii, a Ukraine and Crimea branch of Radio Liberty, that he saw many black bags being unloaded from military vehicles and loaded onto Russian railway wagons. Passersby began filming what was happening but were immediately blocked by the military, who forced them to erase everything from their phones.
A doctor at the central hospital said the facility is now controlled by police and intelligence agencies. We are short of surgeons. After people tried to film the corpses being loaded onto the trains, they only started these operations at night. Health workers were immediately warned: anyone who spoke to outside sources would be fired immediately.
In hospital number 4 in Gomel, as early as March 1, they began discharging ordinary patients to free up places for injured Russians, relatives of sick people said. There are so many Russians and many are terribly mutilated, one of them said on the same radio. But many injured people also arrive in the Russian cities near the border. The Red Star Armed Forces newspaper spoke a few days ago of 1,400 soldiers being treated and sent to rehabilitation centers.
In Crimea, some schools have been turned into field hospitals, according to Refat Chubarov, President of the Crimean Tatar Parliament, who is in exile in Ukraine. The crematorium in the village of Gvardeyskoye near Simferopol works day and night, he added.
March 19, 2022 (Change March 19, 2022 | 21:37)
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