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Corpses piling up in train cars as Russia delays return

Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Russia is reportedly refusing to take the bodies of its soldiers killed in fighting in Ukraine, with corpses piling up in refrigerated train cars outside the Ukrainian capital.

Colonel Volodymyr Lyamzin, Ukraine’s chief civil-military liaison officer, said several hundred bodies have been collected from the battlefield in the Kyiv and Chernihiv region and brought to a rail yard outside the Ukrainian capital. They are being kept on a train until the Russian government agrees to take them.

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