Russian soldiers' bodies stored aboard cold trains

Russian soldiers' bodies stored aboard cold trains

One of the grim realities of the war is dealing with the bodies of those killed in the conflict and that includes Russian soldiers, Qazet.az reports.

Reuters tells the tale of specialised refrigerated cold trains being used by Ukraine to store the dead.

"In this refrigerator train several hundred bodies of Russian occupiers are kept. Most of them [were] brought from the Kyiv region, there are some from Chernihiv region, and from some other regions too," an official told the news agency.

Volodymr Lyamzin, in charge of civilian-military cooperation, said the bodies were being stored this way so they could eventually be returned to their homeland.

"According to the norms of international humanitarian law, and Ukraine is strictly following them, after the active phase of the conflict is over, sides have to return the bodies of the military of another country," he said.