Inside Russia’s grim ‘mobile crematoriums’ used to hide ‘true scale of war’
Russia could hide the true scale of war by using mobile crematoriums to incinerate bodies caught up in the crossfire following their invasion of Ukraine, it has been claimed.
For years, a series of crematoriums have reportedly been deployed alongside war jets and tanks – with the crematoriums being disguised as ordinary vehicles from its exterior.
But from the inside, video footage previously released by the MoD reveals a hidden incinerator to disintegrate the corpses of soldiers and civilians.
On Thursday (February 24), the terrifying clip resurfaced after Russia declared an all-out war with Ukraine.
It is believed the vehicle has enough room to "evaporate" one body at a time and is expected to follow soldiers into the country, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has implied that the system could be a way for future combat losses to be covered up – sparking fears of the condemnation at home when Russia first entered Ukraine in 2014.
He said: "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."
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Following the crematorium fears, the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia has claimed many of Russia's young soldiers who have been deployed in Ukraine were tricked into enlisting, reports Daily Mail.
The non-governmental committee claimed the soldiers were told they were making their way to the border to practice drills, according to a statement released from the group.
"We've had a flurry of calls from scared mothers all over Russia. They are crying, they don’t know if their children are alive or healthy," Andrei Kurochkin, the deputy chairman of the group told site Takie Del.
"If there is a war, then professionals should deal with it, not untrained green guys."
The chairman claims the men had their contracts changed to show that they had arrived at the border for conflict.
"There are instances of physical violence, and beatings of those who refuse to become contract soldiers," he added.
"And after that it’s completely unknown [what happens to them], because they take away their phones."
It has been reported that the group is planning to file a formal complaint with the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office.
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