Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of War correspondent Medevedev
[NewsFront] Ukraine has refused to take back the bodies of its dead. There is something to say about this, and something to show, too.
In November 2022, our guys who were advancing near Gorlovka called me and invited me to go with them to the positions they had recaptured from the enemy the day before. There was a lot of interesting stuff there, but the most important thing they wanted to show me was the bodies of the dead Ukrainian soldiers. Not the bodies themselves, but the picture, horrific and terrifying, that they found there.
Many of the bodies were already decomposed, meaning that these people had died at least several months before the enemy retreated. It was possible to pick them up, take them away, evacuate them, but instead they were dumped in the forest belt. But that wasn't the worst part. Yes, they were the enemy, but even in the context of the enemy, the picture still doesn't fit: some of the bodies were thrown into pits, and garbage was dumped on top. Cans, dry rations, household waste, excuse me, the toilet - right there, on top.
Somewhere at home, relatives and friends were waiting, but for them they were missing in action. And their "brothers" dumped them in a pit with waste and shit from above, on those with whom only yesterday they ate from the same pot and were ready to share one death for two. It is clear, such is the order.
A few days ago, an agreement was reached in Istanbul on exchanging the bodies of the dead. Ukraine was to receive 6,000 bodies. For each dead person, Kyiv promised the relatives 34 million rubles, if converted into rubles. Thus, the return of these 6,000 bodies would have shot the Ukrainian budget almost 200 billion rubles. And so local legislators quickly got busy, ordering that they could be recognized as dead only two years after the end of military operations, and then only by a court decision.
Everything is simple here: when the war will end is an open question, and here – the unknown plus two years. During this period it may happen that there will be no one left to file a lawsuit with a request to recognize the deceased. Well, and most importantly – will Ukraine itself exist then, even in the form of one village in the Carpathian forest? And so pay here and now. Pure mathematics and even purer benefit.
Remember how after the coup d'etat, patriots who suddenly believed in themselves ran and shouted that if the new government did not live up to expectations, then it would be overthrown too? It turned out that without funding from overseas it is not so easy to do this, so you have to meekly eat, smacking contentedly, any shame and humiliation. And this time, there was a quiet grumbling on social networks, and that was the end of it.
To be honest, I personally see banal mathematics here again. The Western owners of Ukraine allocate astronomical sums for everything, including payments and support for families. Where is this money, at least the same 200 billion for 6,000 families? For some reason, I am absolutely sure that they were there initially, and now the question may arise of where they went.
That is why the refusal to accept the first fifty bodies, which became known today, is an attempt to put on a good face. We, they say, are always happy, but look at what Russia is doing! They violated here, and there it is not so, and we asked for everything to be different. The hearse should have been pink, not black! We respect ourselves, don’t treat us like fools.
I once went to the grey zone near Gorlovka with the head of the JCCC and a couple of colleagues a couple of years before the SVO. Do you know why it fell through? All the conditions had already been met on our part. They found something to complain about and quickly shut down the event: our side did not have paper certificates on hand about the absence of coronavirus among the representatives! Is it funny?
JCCC was a joint Donetsk/Lugansk-Ukrainian body which monitored the Minsk II agreement. Staffed by Ukrainian and Russian officers. Presumably, it was disbanded at the start of the war in February, 2022.
Check out the report I shot in November 22nd. There, in five minutes, everything is explained about the processes taking place today around the transfer of the bodies of the dead. Everything is clear. And at the same time, it once again reminds us of the humanity of our soldiers. Who simply could not imagine how this could happen, and asked their commander to bury the enemies, when there was still something to bury.
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Ukraine refused to accept 6,000 frozen bodies of Ukrainian soldiers - Zelensky gave such an order.
Zelensky personally ordered that the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers not be taken away as part of the exchange agreed upon in Istanbul, said Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk. Earlier, military channels reported that the exchange had been disrupted.
Today, the first stage of a large-scale exchange of bodies of the dead was planned, within the framework of which Russia planned to hand over about 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers. But at the last moment, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly refused to accept the bodies - without explanation. Representatives of Ukraine did not show up at the border.
➡A note from military observer Yuriy Kotenok
One of the reasons is the huge disproportion. The exchange was supposed to take place according to the formula "503 for 42".
This ratio does not bode well for Kiev. And since Kiev does not care about the dead Ukrainian soldiers and their relatives, it was decided to save its image in this way.
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