1/ Russian soldiers and their relatives are buying their own body bags, due to a lack of assistance from the Russian Ministry of Defence. A crowd-funded effort in Chelyabinsk has sought to purchase "bags for the 200s" at a cost of 200 rubles ($2.18) each.
2/ Anna Deryabina, a war widow and volunteer from Chelyabinsk, has organised an appeal on the Russian social network VK for funds for body bags. She writes:
3/ "As scary as it is to write about it, we need bags for the 200s.😭😭
For transporting the dead guys.😔
We need a lot.🆘
The cost of one is 200 rubles.
The reality, unfortunately, is that their guys are buying them at their own expense.😔"
For transporting the dead guys.😔
We need a lot.🆘
The cost of one is 200 rubles.
The reality, unfortunately, is that their guys are buying them at their own expense.😔"
4/ This is not the first body bag fundraiser reported from Russia. A similar effort was reported recently from Irkutsk, where the local authorities had run out of money to transport bodies back to their relatives.
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5/ While Russia's MOD does recover bodies from the battlefield, many relatives have complained that far too few are being returned. Large numbers of unburied dead have been a consistent feature of the Ukrainian battlefields.
6/ It's notable that according to Deryabina, soldiers are having to pay for their own body bags. It's unclear whether they are buying them so that they can collect their dead comrades, or are seeking to ensure that their own bodies can be retrieved if they die. /end
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