Between Russiathe military arsenal of Ukraine are a series of mobile crematoria designed to dismantle the bodies of dead soldiers and civilians and hide the true scale of the war, it said Thursday as Putin progressed with his attack on Ukraine.
The crematoria have been located alongside tanks and fighter jets for years and a video of them was published online in 2013. These footage reappeared on Thursday with grim new sharpness now that total war has been declared. Externally, the trucks look like ordinary vehicles, but contain hidden incinerators.
Western defense experts say they could be used to burn the bodies of soldiers in an attempt to hide the true death toll.
“If I were a soldier and I 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 in a battle zone and my government, I thought the cover-up of losses is a mobile crematorium, I would be deeply, deeply concerned “, the British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace he said The Daily Telegraph on Thursday night.
Russia’s Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, meanwhile, says many of Putin’s young soldiers now fighting in Ukraine have been misled into enlistment and told they are heading to the training border before being sent into bloody conflict. .
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This image, taken from a 2013 video of the “mobile crematoria”, shows the incinerator hidden in the truck opening to dump the soldiers’ bodies. These crematoria are among the vehicles believed to be following Russian troops around in an attempt to hide the true scale of the war.
Young Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces on Thursday after the outbreak of war by air strikes at dawn
The committee is non-governmental and was set up in 1989. On Thursday, they issued a statement saying many of the young men enlisted in the army had been tricked into doing so and then beaten if they tried to back down.
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized without war on Thursday and warned the West not to intervene
“We have received a wave of calls from frightened mothers from all over Russia. They are crying, they don’t know if their children are alive or well, “Andrei Kurochkin, the group’s deputy chairman, told Russia’s Takie Del website.
“If there is a war, then professionals have to deal with it, not untrained green boys,” he said, adding that it was a “complete disaster” for soldiers to wage war “under duress”.
The young men were told they were going to the border for training, after which their contracts were changed to signal that they were there for a conflict.
“They’re transferring entire regiments to contract.” [soldiers,] although the boys did not make any formal requests to do so and did not take such an initiative.
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- Global markets have shaken, with the Russian ruble falling to its lowest level ever
- The price of oil jumped to over $ 100 a barrel
- The EU will freeze Russian assets, cut off access to the financial market and focus on “Kremlin interests”
- The G7 called Putin a “threat to the global order”, promising “heavy and coordinated economic and financial sanctions”
- Joe Biden has announced new sanctions against Russian banks, exports and the military
- Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, will be separated from the US financial system, and full sanctions have been imposed on four other financial institutions.
- Boris Johnson called the invasion a “catastrophe for our continent” and called Putin a “dictator”
- China has reiterated calls for talks, but has refused to criticize Russia’s attack
- Moldova has declared a state of emergency
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the invasion is a “heavy blow” to regional peace
- NATO ambassadors have scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday
- The UN Security Council will discuss a resolution condemning the invasion
- Ukraine has asked the world to expel Russia from the SWIFT banking system
“There are cases of physical violence and beatings of those who refuse to become contract soldiers. And then it’s completely unknown [what happens to them]because their phones are taken away.
The group is currently preparing to file a formal complaint with the General Military Prosecutor’s Office.
Pictures of some of the soldiers surfaced on Thursday when they were captured by Ukrainian forces. Many of them were extremely young men.
Terrifying videos from Ukraine show tanks moving through Chernobyl while firing on rings in Sumy, near the border with Russia.
Ukrainians spent the night hiding in subway stations, unable to get out on crowded roads and trains while hiding from air strikes.
It remains unclear whether they are still on the road. Ukraine has promised to respond with all its might.
Troops are already approaching the headquarters of the Ukrainian force after taking control of the Chernobyl Strategic Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday, and will take it within 96 hours, lifting a “new Iron Curtain” over Europe, Vladimir Zelensky warned.
Officials say Vladimir Putin plans to encircle Ukrainian forces in Kiev and force them to either surrender or be destroyed, and then Ukraine’s leadership will fall in a week.
A former senior US intelligence officer told Newsweek: “Once the air and artillery ends and the ground war really begins, I think Kiev will fall in just a few days.
“The military may last a little longer, but it won’t last long.”
A source close to the Ukrainian government said they had agreed to encircle Kiev within 96 hours, but believed the government would remain strong and would not collapse.
In an attempt to thwart the impending conquest of the city, Emmanuel Macron spoke tonight with Vladimir Putin, who gave the French leader a “comprehensive” explanation of his justification for war.
The Kremlin said the conversation was initiated by Macron, and he and Putin agreed to stay in touch.
President Vladimir Zelensky has promised to give weapons to any civilian he wants.
President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of new sanctions against Russian financial institutions that he said would have a “serious” effect on the economy.
A Russian T-72 tank is depicted sitting in front of the main reactor at Chernobyl after Putin’s troops captured it in a “fierce” battle with the state of nuclear storage “unknown”
Russian armored vehicles park on roads near Chernobyl plant, amid fears that damage to the facility could cause radiation leaks that will cover Europe with precipitation
The attack reached Ukraine on all fronts with bombs and missiles dropped across targets across the country in the early hours, followed by attacks by troops from Crimea, Donbas, Belgorod and Belarus, as well as helicopter landings in Kiev and power plants on the Dnieper River. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant also fell into the hands of Russian forces
Russian Mi-8 attack helicopters attack Gostomel air base, right on the outskirts of Kiev, after Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale attack on the country
The State Department tells citizens to take care of themselves. “The US government will not be able to evacuate American citizens from Ukraine,” the website said in a statement today.
President Biden addressed the nation on Thursday afternoon. He promised to impose harsh sanctions on Russia, but said nothing about evacuation plans. Earlier this month, he said Americans in Ukraine must leave the country on their own
“Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will suffer the consequences, “Biden said in a White House statement in response to Putin’s invasion, which has killed at least 57 Ukrainians so far.
The president insisted he had not underestimated the Russian leader and admitted in a confusing moment that “no one expects” earlier sanctions imposed on Russian financial institutions and Putin’s inner circle to “prevent something from happening.”
He said Putin had additional ambitions and wanted to “restore the Soviet Union”, but insisted he would not send US troops to Ukraine and did not plan to speak to the Russian leader by phone.
Biden’s speech, which was postponed twice Thursday afternoon, came after the Kremlin took control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after a “fierce” battle. Ukraine has said that the condition of nuclear storage facilities is “unknown”, which raises concerns about leaks of radiation that could cause precipitation in Europe.
The video reveals Russian tanks and armored vehicles standing in front of a destroyed reactor 60 miles north of the capital Kiev, which is surrounded by Putin’s forces and could fall after 96 hours.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also issued a grim warning on Thursday, saying: “All the evidence is that Russia intends to surround and threaten Kiev, and we believe that Moscow has developed plans to commit widespread human rights abuses – and potentially worse – the Ukrainian people. ‘
“Now the whole world sees clearly what Putin and his Kremlin allies are all about.
“This has never been a real security concern for them. It has always been a matter of naked aggression, “the president said in a White House speech. “America opposes tyrants,” he added. “This is us.”