Mothers should pick them up
Ukraine: 1,500 bodies of Russian soldiers recovered
04/13/2022, 8:36 p.m
According to experts, Dnipro should be the next major target for the Russians in the battle for eastern Ukraine. The city is now saying that 1,500 Russian soldiers are lying there in four different morgues.
According to Ukrainian sources, the bodies of more than 1,500 Russian soldiers have been recovered in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. They were taken to a total of four different mortuaries, said the deputy mayor of the industrial city, Mykhailo Lysenko, today on the US-financed television station Nastoyashcheye Vremya.
He called on Russian mothers to pick up their dead sons. “I don’t want to bury them in mass graves. I don’t want to cremate them,” said Lysenko. “We are not brutes.” The information could not be verified at first. According to the Ukrainian army, almost 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the Russian war of aggression began almost seven weeks ago. Moscow, on the other hand, cites significantly lower losses and most recently spoke of 1,351 dead soldiers in its own ranks.
Dnipro lies on the border with the country’s eastern regions and observers estimate it could be a future target for the Russian army. Military expert Mick Ryan points out that the wealthy industrial hub is “a political and military target” for both warring factions. Moscow will try to “fix the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass and encircle them as they advance towards Dnipro”.
The first weeks of the war have already shown that fighting is in danger of consolidating around urban centers and turning into guerrilla warfare. These developments could lead to heavy losses in both camps. Western military circles say the Russians would “pay dearly” if they invaded cities in the Donbass.
Rocket attack on Dnipro – airport destroyed
Dnipro Airport was destroyed in a Russian attack on Sunday, officials said. This also applies to other infrastructure facilities near the airport, said the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, via the Telegram news service. “And the rockets fly and fly,” it said.
Russia has rarely commented on its losses in Ukraine since the beginning of its invasion. Last week, however, the Kremlin admitted that they were “significant”.