A 'Cargo 200' truck, carrying the bodies of Russian 'volunteers' killed fighting in Ukraine, crosses the border into Russia. Maria Turchenkova/Echo Photo Agency
Josh Rogin, Bloomberg: Russia Is Using Mobile Crematoriums to Hide Ukraine's Dead
Russia is so desperate to hide its military involvement in Ukraine that it has brought in mobile crematoriums to destroy the bodies of its war dead, say U.S. lawmakers who traveled to the war-torn country this spring.
The U.S. and NATO have long maintained that thousands of Russian troops are fighting alongside separatists inside eastern Ukraine, and that the Russian government is obscuring not only the presence but also the deaths of its soldiers there. In March, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow told a conference, "Russian leaders are less and less able to conceal the fact that Russian soldiers are fighting -- and dying -- in large numbers in eastern Ukraine."
Hence the extreme measures to get rid of the evidence. “The Russians are trying to hide their casualties by taking mobile crematoriums with them,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told me. “They are trying to hide not only from the world but from the Russian people their involvement.”
WNU Editor: I covered a similar news story last year .... Many Russian Soldiers Have Died (And Are Dying) In Ukraine. Trucks marked ‘Gruz 200' are known to be the hearses for Russia's dead ... as to mobile crematoriums .... that is news to me, but I suspect that they are mixing up 'Gruz 200' trucks with rumors about mobile crematoriums. More on these trucks can be read here .... Why Russian Trucks Designated 'Cargo 200' Are An Ominous Sign That War Is About To Return To Eastern Ukraine.