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In Russia, coming up with an accurate tally is even harder, due to government regulations that have clamped down on independent reporting--and even made uttering the words "war" and "invasion" a potentially criminal offense.

But in the Belarusian regions bordering Ukraine, residents and medical workers have reported a rising tide of corpses and maimed servicemen being shipped out of Ukraine and then sent elsewhere for further treatment -- or burial.

More than 2,500 soldiers' corpses had already been shipped from the Homel region back to Russia by trains or by plane as of March 13, according to one employee of the Homel regional clinical hospital.

Like all the people who spoke with RFE/RL, this individual asked not to be named out of fear of retribution or prosecution by Belarusian or Russian security agencies.

The figure could not be independently verified.

'It Was Unbelievable How Many Corpses There Were'

Ukraine's military claims that more than 14,000 Russians have been killed since Russia launched the invasion on February 24 --a number that is much higher than most independent estimates. The military has not released formal casualty figures, saying it is a state secret, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week that about 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed.

Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, claims that more than 2,870 Ukrainians soldiers and paramilitary fighters have been killed, and around 3,700 wounded. Its only official tally of Russian casualties came on March 2, when the ministry said that 498 soldiers had been killed and 1,597 wounded.

Earlier this week, U.S. intelligence put the Russian military death toll at more than 7,000 -- and said that is a conservative estimate.

One place to look for evidence of Russian military deaths is the Homel region: Wedged into southeastern Belarus, it borders Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. The city of Homel is Belarus's largest after Minsk, and a major hub for trade and transport.

Under strongman leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus has increasingly become a vassal state of Russia, according to experts. Lukashenka has voiced strong backing for Russia's war, allowed deployment of major Russian military units in the country, and threatened to send Belarusian forces into Ukraine.

Before the invasion, tens of thousands of Russian troops were positioned close to the Ukrainian border. An unknown number of them crossed from the Homel region and pushed south toward Kyiv, but they have advanced slowly and suffered substantial losses.

In Mazyr, whose population is around 100,000, the city's only morgue was overflowing with corpses as of March 3, according to eyewitnesses. "It was unbelievable how many corpses there were," said one Mazyr resident who frequently drives through the city and nearby areas for business.

He said he had seen many "black sacks" being loaded from military ambulances onto Russian railway cars. "Passengers at the Mazyr train station were shocked by the number of corpses being loaded on the train," he said. "After people started shooting video, the military caught them and ordered them to remove it."

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.

Another Homel doctor said there was growing concern among city residents that there could be shortage of everyday medications for the general population. "People are panicking, but so far there is [medical] help and there is enough medicine. What will happen next is still unknown," the doctor said. "It's likely there will be problems with anti-tetanus drugs."

Tetanus is a common ailment afflicting soldiers suffering from shrapnel and bullet wounds.

At Homel's Center for Radiation Medicine, about 400 Russian troops are currently being treated, according to employees. The influx of troops has also prompted at least one hospital employee to call for donations -- of diapers, wet wipes, soap, shampoo, water, cookies, and clothes to help the soldiers.

Hanna Krasulina, a spokeswoman for exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told Ukrainian television on March 2 that morgues in Mazyr were crowded with dead Russian servicemen, some of them from Chechnya.

"We must inform both the Chechens and the Russians that the Belarusian morgues in the south of Belarus are already being filled with the corpses of their soldiers," she said. "This is important to let them know. We will not allow Russian propaganda to hide it."

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texazzpete:
Lmao
To put this in context, this 'city' has a population of 56000 people. And was abandoned by the Ukrainian army.

To put this into context, Ekpoma has a population of 290000 people. So this city is six times smaller than Ekpoma.

And Putin groupies are fantasizing here

To put this in context, you're essentially saying the Ukrainian army abandoned 56,000 people?
Those days, you'd be on the stretcher by now, just for the way you think.

jumper524:
Ukraine has seen reasons on why it shouldn't join nato. A peaceful solution to all this. Instead of western countries to hasten this peaceful resolution they are busy raining sanctions upon sanctions. They don't care about the avoidable death of civilians in Ukraine. They refused to send their troops to help Ukraine but are commercializing the war in all aspects. Bu stealing from Russians business men. Suddenly all Russian business men operating in western countries have become thieves who stole the wealth of Russians citizens according to biden.
Biden is now concerned about Russia business men. How emphatic.
70% of Russians stands with putin and we saw that in a rally he organised. The west should continue with the lies. They capitalize so much on news that doesn't favour Russia when we saw the rally yesterday.
See what my Russia friend said.

dey said wit d sanctions by may russia wod stop d war,by den dem don bomb urkraine finish. Deciet.

owagbeba:
Resistance is futile

Negotiate territorial neutrality
End this war and end the destruction.
Russian ops is slow and methodical.
Slow does not mean bugged down
Surrounding the big cities and towns
Gradually wearing out the UAF fighters with targeted strikes one big theater at a time.

Each day “they” turn the pain dial,
Destroying heavy industries and MIlitary-industrial complexes.

Negotiate and end this destruction.
Resistance is futile.

War poet!
Nice.

Themandator:


Ukraine is not Afghanistan that got everything to make a future but threw it away in a week... Silly cowards that would rather wear suicide vest than man up and fight


Russia, Presently is bringing in her best rained division located outside the capital, Moscow to aid the fight... Why... Depletion in both human and material sent to in initially


Ukraine has done more than enough holding down for a whole month against over 200k Russian military men

Over 300 billion of Russian savings is already kept for rebuilding Ukraine

Which Ukraine?
The occupied Ukraine or which one?

texazzpete:
Lmao
To put this in context, this 'city' has a population of 56000 people. And was abandoned by the Ukrainian army.

To put this into context, Ekpoma has a population of 290000 people. So this city is six times smaller than Ekpoma.

And Putin groupies are fantasizing here

Do you even know what the war is about? Are you aware that the west has invaded Russia about 5 times in the past 200+ years and each time Russia won or at least forced a dead lock.

You see Western European nations do not see Russians as pure white people.......they see Russians as mongoloid, a mix breed of asians and caucasians! Unlike dumb Africans who allowed their bumbums to be sold , the Russians at great cost fought and defeated Napoleon of France, Hitler of Germany and even the British financed Turkey and Japan to fight Russia but they all failed to defeat and colonize Russia..........
Because of her painful experience in the past Russia never participated in the scramble and colonization of Africa nor did they trade in African slaves. On the contrary Russia participated in the emancipation of African....they fought for and armed freedom fighters in Angola,Mozambique,congo,South Africa.......in fact when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1890 Russians fought with Ethiopians to defeat Italy.......that was in 1890 o! African youth should learn to read........do not swallow everything Uk and USA vomits.
Like Africa , Russia is far,far more blessed with natural resources than western Europe....so the jealous western European nations have always wanted to dominate and take over the Gold, Diamonds,rare earth metals and materials, crude oil and gas.....Russia no be cowardly Africa. Russia will be in control of Eastern Ukraine by easter and the world will witness the resurrection of a counter force to western global hegemony! New nations are about to be birthed and western stooge nations like Nigeria will be shaken thoroughly! E don red for some people...........strongholds and principalities are about to be decimated.

Vicotex2:

Northern Nigeria have 2 government.
Some people pay taxes to your Muslim terrorist while some pay to the walking dead in Aso rock.

E pain you? �

Which part suppose pain me


I don't stay in the North. I'm far from being a muslim... And he's really a walking corpse.

bigfish3k:

Every time you must mention USA

Did USA send any foot soldier to capture
Gaddafi?

Hope you have heard of Arab spring
Was it not Libyans themselves that was fighting Gaddafi?
Did US sent any soldier to Libyan soil.
It was a Libyan that shot Gaddafi.
Get this fact into your head and stop repeating propaganda against US

Oga Solomon grounding how dull are you to believe that it will only take puttin soldiers a day to capture zenlysky? For you to even LGA chairman you need proper plans wake up

Themandator:



Russia will stay in Ukraine for minimum 5 years.... This is not a hit and run as they envisaged


As for the destruction, when they be sine truly weak and needing that 315 billion dollar reserve already seized by the west they won't get it... It is the first tranche of their contribution towards fixing Ukraine


All the assets and ownership of their elites been confiscated in EU is the second tranche.

It won't be as simple as you put it. The war in Ukraine is capable of leading to a much bigger war in Europe and by extension the entire world if something is not done to stop it now. The erroneous permutation on the basis of seized assets of influential Russians and the foreign reserve of the country won't matter any longer when nuclear warheads begin to fly around ! Ukraine presently is in ruins;cities like Mariupol,Irpin etc are no longer recognisable ! A lot of Ukrainians have lost their lives and many more have been displaced. Why should anyone keep encouraging Ukrainians to fight on when it is certain that will only bring more deaths and destructions to them ?

Danmboss:
In as much I have tried to say neutral on this matter I think Ukraine is just talk and boosting in social media.

It's been almost a month, mind u Ukraine doesn't even have a reasonable army but Russia which it's the second strongest army on earth is finding it difficult to invade.

TenQ:

Shouldn't you Russia be ashamed that an their army vastly more superior in both technology , military hardware, personal, wealth etc than the Ukrainian is stalling in their unjustified offensive?

Ukraine will surely fall with enough time but they have proved that they are not walkovers!

why should they be ashamed when your benchmark (US) did way worse in Afghanistan, 20 years with no gain. It took the entire Nato 10 years to battle Serbia.
It took the same Nato several months to defeat Iraq

Techguy96:


It's been almost a month, mind u Ukraine doesn't even have a reasonable army but Russia which it's the second strongest army on earth is finding it difficult to invade.

Nato spend months trying to invade Iraq, so what's your point?

THE TRUTH ARE COMING OUT

USSANews.com

The second phase of the military operation has begun. Russia first used hypersonic missile “Daggers” and began to destroy entire brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now the fighting will be tougher At today’s briefing of the Ministry of Defense, information was announced about the use of the Bastion and Dagger complexes as part
ussanews.comMar 19, 2022 2:03 PM
The second phase of the military operation has begun. Russia first used hypersonic missile “Daggers” and began to destroy entire brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now the fighting will be tougher

At today’s briefing of the Ministry of Defense, information was announced about the use of the Bastion and Dagger complexes as part of a special military operation. This is the first officially confirmed use of these types of weapons in a real conflict.

This fact, as well as the emerging information about the successful use of cruise missiles against the mercenary base near Lvov and the location of the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Nikolaev, suggests that Russia, with a high degree of probability, has begun the second phase of the NMD. And now, unlike the first stage, the conduct of hostilities is built not on the classical concept of a large-scale offensive, but on the principles of “new generation” armed conflicts, when, instead of a ground offensive, priority is given to the use of long-range precision weapons and mobile special-purpose sabotage groups. Such an approach, although it will require more time for the complete demilitarization of Ukraine, will significantly reduce the possible losses of regular ground formations of the RF Armed Forces.

Thus, the military operation is increasingly beginning to look like a tough modern war by all the rules, which greatly frightens the Ukrainian leadership, which is increasingly turning to NATO with a request to create a no-fly zone. However, predictably, there is no talk of any no-fly zone.

More and more details on the results of the strike on a military base near Lviv

According to radio interception, losses among foreign mercenaries and special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of a strike on a base near Lvov have already amounted to at least 267

According to 50-year-old Peter from Austria, who was a member of the “International Legion of Ukraine”, on the basis of the Yavoriv training ground, at the time of the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces there were from 800 to a thousand foreigners.

The wounded are still being taken out – about 450/300 have been evacuated to Poland.


Many have burns to their faces and bodies, and some have their limbs torn off.

The number of missing people, who are under the rubble of the corps, in which there were American, Romanian and Polish mercenaries, is not yet completely known.


Arms deliveries worth $400 million have been completely destroyed.

Among the dead are a large number of officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and former NATO officers.

The authorities of Ukraine and the United States carefully hide the real scale of the losses, secretly raking up the consequences of a successful attack by the Russian Armed Forces.

After the incident, the enthusiasm of mercenaries from all over the world noticeably faded.

An Austrian mercenary said this about the strike on the Yavorovsky training ground: “These people will all die, no one will get out of here alive!”

This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.algora.com and its author.

Vicotex2:
why should they be ashamed when your benchmark (US) did way worse in Afghanistan, 20 years with no gain. It took the entire Nato 10 years to battle Serbia.
It took the same Nato several months to defeat Iraq

If it is a fight between Russia and the USA, common sense says Russia should face their true Enemy (the USA).

No wonder within 3 weeks four Russian Generals have been killed by the small Ukraine.

texazzpete:


I guess the translation of this is that you don't have evidence to back up your claim that the city is bigger than Benin.


PS: There's no such thing as 'Azov Oblast'

The Sea of Azov is an internal sea with Russia to the east and Ukraine to the west. It is connected to the larger Black Sea by the Kerch Strait. Now Russia is in control of the entire sea of Azov.

TenQ:

If it is a fight between Russia and the USA, common sense says Russia should face their true Enemy (the USA).

No wonder within 3 weeks four Russian Generals have been killed by the small Ukraine.

According to you, if its a fight between Russia and USA.
America should come and save Ukraine like they always save the "world" in the movies.
Small Serbia using outdated Soviet decommissioned weapons held the entire NATO for 10 good years.

NATO are paper tiger.

NaijaMutant:
mumu Putin.


He should have backed the separatist groups in Ukraine with serious weaponry to continue to destabilize the country.

By this means, avoiding outright invasion and the consequent sanctions.

I'm pretty sure he's done that for 8yrs now. There has been serious fighting since 2014 in the east. The Ukrainians had used militias with Nazi sympathies and ultra white nationalist to do the fighting in the east.

AniwetaluEmma:
What media is telling us is obviously not what is really happening.
Western Media and propaganda.

The news you are reading right now is from Eastern media?

olugabbie:


The Sea of Azov is an internal sea with Russia to the east and Ukraine to the west. It is connected to the larger Black Sea by the Kerch Strait. Now Russia is in control of the entire sea of Azov.

My conversation with the other guy was about a fictional ‘Azov Oblast’. What does that have to do with the Sea of Azov?

jumper524:
Ukraine has seen reasons on why it shouldn't join nato. A peaceful solution to all this. Instead of western countries to hasten this peaceful resolution they are busy raining sanctions upon sanctions. They don't care about the avoidable death of civilians in Ukraine. They refused to send their troops to help Ukraine but are commercializing the war in all aspects. Bu stealing from Russians business men. Suddenly all Russian business men operating in western countries have become thieves who stole the wealth of Russians citizens according to biden.
Biden is now concerned about Russia business men. How emphatic.
70% of Russians stands with putin and we saw that in a rally he organised. The west should continue with the lies. They capitalize so much on news that doesn't favour Russia when we saw the rally yesterday.
See what my Russia friend said.

Surely you cannot be this clueless? ���

VEHINTOLAR:


It won't be as simple as you put it. The war in Ukraine is capable of leading to a much bigger war in Europe and by extension the entire world if something is not done to stop it now. The erroneous permutation on the basis of seized assets of influential Russians and the foreign reserve of the country won't matter any longer when nuclear warheads begin to fly around ! Ukraine presently is in ruins;cities like Mariupol,Irpin etc are no longer recognisable ! A lot of Ukrainians have lost their lives and many more have been displaced. Why should anyone keep encouraging Ukrainians to fight on when it is certain that will only bring more deaths and destructions to them ?

Russia doesn't have the monopoly of nuclear warhead. If nuclear starts it starts but I know the west won't be the first to deploy it... Theirs will always be in response to that of Russia on their member nations


Russia is surrounded by America's over 750 military bases around the world minus the ones in US soil

Conventional or nuclear war will always be in response to what Russia does or does not do


As for ruined cities of Ukraine, Russia seized assets will be used to rebuild them even finer than their original state. Human lives are the only causalities and it is happening on both sides.. The fact that Russia is sending ore troops and hardware should tell the story, better


America will keep Russia in Ukraine for minimum five years... The budget of NASA FOR A YEAR is the total reserve of Russia... It is time to deal with an irritant

Russia will be ruined both economically and militarily

bigfish3k:
I still wonder how Putin will be wasting the lives of so many people including his soldiers for an illegal war just for his ego trip.

How I wish NATO can intervene

Unfortunately Russia is t Lybia, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine etc. If NATO do anyhow they go see anyhow. Nobody wants to have a nuclear combat with almighty Russia not even US

007Marvel:
When it's against Ukrainians it's not propaganda but Russian winning the war in reality and Ukraine wining the war in the media! una no see say sense far from una well well

I will only think Ukraine is doing well is they start firing missiles to Moscow and other Russian cities

007Marvel:
When it's against Ukrainians it's not propaganda but Russian winning the war in reality and Ukraine wining the war in the media! una no see say sense far from una well well

I will only think Ukraine is doing well is they start firing missiles to Moscow and other Russian cities. Some said that Russia can't defeat Ukraine but I think it is just a matter of time for ukrain to fall to Russia.

Fairmedia:

What is your gain if Russian wins

It will greatly affect US Monopoly of economic and technological power. Russia is proving to the world and some Nigerian that call US the world police that that's not true. US can only police useless countries like Nigeria and her likes and not a giant like Russia.

THE TRUTH ARE COMING OUT ON UKRAINE.

Al Jazeera

Latest on Ukraine

Rescue operations underway: Rescue efforts are taking place in Mykolaiv on Saturday morning at the scene of a missile strike on a barracks housing soldiers, regional boss Vitalli Kim said. Dozens of troops are reported to have been killed in the attack by Russian forces, according to journalists from CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen who were at the scene.

FIRST USE OF HYPERSONIC MISSILE IN THE WORLD.

US officials confirm Russia has used hypersonic missiles against Ukraine
From CNN's Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Barbara Starr
US officials confirmed to CNN that Russia launched hypersonic missiles against Ukraine last week, the first known use of such missiles in combat. The US was able to track the launches in real time, the sources said.
The launches were likely intended to test the weapons and send a message to the West about Russian capabilities, multiple sources told CNN.
Russia's Ministry of Defence said Saturday that
it had launched hypersonic Kinzhal missiles against a military ammunitions warehouse in western Ukraine on Friday, destroying the structure in the Ukrainian village of Delyatin. CNN is unable to independently verify this claim.
Traveling at Mach 5 speed or faster, hypersonic weapons are difficult to detect, posing a challenge to missile defense systems. Hypersonic missiles can travel at a far lower trajectory than high-arcing ballistic missiles, which can be easily detectable. Hypersonics can also maneuver and evade missile defense systems.
The Pentagon has made developing hypersonic weapons one of its top priorities, particularly as China and Russia are working to develop their own versions.
CNN's Oren Liebermann contributed to this report.

Vicotex2:

According to you, if its a fight between Russia and USA.
America should come and save Ukraine like they always save the "world" in the movies.
Small Serbia using outdated Soviet decommissioned weapons held the entire NATO for 10 good years.

NATO are paper tiger.

You don't get the point.
I dont care one hoot about USA and their meddling in international politics. I care only about Ukraine in this case.
Russia should face its enemy the USA and stop using the small Ukraine as their scapegoat like a bully.

The fact that I don't like USA meddling in affairs of every country does not mean a "neutral" Ukraine should be mistreated! One day, it could be your turn.

Russia says it has used a hypersonic weapon for the first time, to destroy an underground military depot in western Ukraine. Hypersonic missiles are fast weapons that can evade detection by missile defence systems. The defence ministry said it had destroyed a large underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The missiles would have been destroyed to warn Ukraine and the west that it “has the means to escalate” the conflict further, said Dr James Bosbotinis.

This war is getting deadlier by the day.

jumper524:
Ukraine has seen reasons on why it shouldn't join nato. A peaceful solution to all this. Instead of western countries to hasten this peaceful resolution they are busy raining sanctions upon sanctions. They don't care about the avoidable death of civilians in Ukraine. They refused to send their troops to help Ukraine but are commercializing the war in all aspects. Bu stealing from Russians business men. Suddenly all Russian business men operating in western countries have become thieves who stole the wealth of Russians citizens according to biden.
Biden is now concerned about Russia business men. How emphatic.
70% of Russians stands with putin and we saw that in a rally he organised. The west should continue with the lies. They capitalize so much on news that doesn't favour Russia when we saw the rally yesterday.
See what my Russia friend said.

Putin organized a rally yesterday and I didn’t see that ??

READ BETWEEN THE LINES ( Russia No Be Beans To Go Fight For War)

Military commanders from NATO countries are working the phones with their Russian counterparts.

March 18, 2022, 9:28 AM UTC
Military commanders from NATO countries are working the phones with their Russian counterparts to make sure the U.S. and its allies don’t get dragged into a war over a misunderstanding on the Ukrainian border.

The Reason

In the past 24 hours, Russian missiles landed near Lviv, the city in western Ukraine that has been a gathering point for people fleeing the conflict. At the weekend Russia hit a military facility in the region about 22 miles from Poland and last week a reconnaissance drone darted through several eastern European countries before crashing in the Croatian capital Zagreb.