Russia Ukraine: Chilling way Putin could hide war’s true death toll

Russia has mobile crematoriums that can “evaporate” dead soldiers to mask the true number killed in its war with Ukraine, according to a report.

Russia has mobile crematoriums in its arsenal that could follow invading forces and “evaporate” dead soldiers, according to a report.

The British Ministry of Defence released video of the trucks that can incinerate bodies one at a time and suggested on Wednesday the Kremlin might deploy them in its war with Ukraine to hide the number of casualties, the New York Post reported.

“If I was a soldier and knew that my generals had so little faith in me that they followed me around the battlefield with a mobile crematorium, or I was the mother or father of a son, potentially deployed into a combat zone, and my government thought that the way to cover up losses was a mobile crematorium, I’d be deeply, deeply worried,” UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the UK’s Telegraph.

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The UK said Russia could deploy the crematoriums during the conflict. Picture: YouTube/zaoTurmalin

The machines could follow invading forces and incinerate bodies, masking the true death toll. Picture: YouTube/zaoTurmalin

“It’s a very chilling side effect of how the Russians view their forces,” he said of the footage first posted back in 2013.

Mr Wallace expects “to see some of the things they’ve done previously” and that the use of a mobile crematorium “probably says everything you need to know about the Russian regime,” according to the Telegraph.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he’d be ‘deeply worried’ if he were a soldier. Picture: YouTube/zaoTurmalin

A video posted in 2013 shows the testing of a mobile crematorium for biological waste. Picture: YouTube/zaoTurmalin

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on Thursday and immediately started to launch missiles.

Explosions rocked Kyiv, the country’s capital of three million people, and black smoke was seen gushing from the headquarters of Ukraine’s military intelligence. Video footage captured helicopters attacking an airport near Kyiv and attack helicopters hovering over the city’s rooftops.

Dozens of people had been killed so far, Ukrainian officials said.

“Russian treacherously attacked our state in the morning, as Nazi Germany did in #2WW years,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted. “As of today, our countries are on different sides of world history.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission