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2015-05-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
For Putin's Troops In Ukraine, They're All "Unknown Soldiers"
HT to Hotair.
Russia is so desperate to hide its military involvement in Ukraine that it has brought in mobile crematoriums to destroy the bodies of its war dead, say U.S. lawmakers who traveled to the war-torn country this spring.

The U.S. and NATO have long maintained that thousands of Russian troops are fighting alongside separatists inside eastern Ukraine, and that the Russian government is obscuring not only the presence but also the deaths of its soldiers there. In March, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow told a conference, "Russian leaders are less and less able to conceal the fact that Russian soldiers are fighting -- and dying -- in large numbers in eastern Ukraine."

Hence the extreme measures to get rid of the evidence. "The Russians are trying to hide their casualties by taking mobile crematoriums with them," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told me. "They are trying to hide not only from the world but from the Russian people their involvement."
Posted by Frank G 2015-05-26 14:39|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 I can relate ...

Unlike Putin = Mama Russia, the US prefers to attack-n-burn-down its own National Archives to CYA its butt from its own "unknowns".

ANDOR SEND A SSSSHHHHH ... CCCCCCC "BURN" NOTICE".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-26 19:43||   2015-05-26 19:43|| Front Page Top

#2 If Russia has troops in the Ukraine, and they are dying in large numbers... that really doesn't speak highly of the quality of Russian troops does it?
Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-26 23:34||   2015-05-26 23:34|| Front Page Top

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