If Russia is not at war, then who is in those freshly-dug graves?

Kharkiv Human Rights protection Group KHRPG ^ | 27.08.14 | Halya Coynash

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In its editorial comment, Vedomosti.ru warns that “in the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine the Russian authorities are in danger of repeating the mistakes of the Soviet regime”/ It asks: “Is Russia fighting in Ukraine and if so, then on what grounds? If not, then who is in those freshly-dug graves or giving testimony at SBU interrogations?”

Even Russian President Vladimir Putin’s KGB predecessors were unable to keep the death of large numbers of people secret, though they certainly tried. Efforts are still underway in Pskov and other parts of Russia to conceal the death or injury of a large number of soldiers sent to fight Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine. Despite obvious pressure on relatives to keep silent and violence against journalists, it is becoming increasingly clear that many of those previously assumed to have been mercenaries, were soldiers[....]

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Polyakova and another member of the council, Sergey Krivenko have written to Russia’s Investigative Committee asking that an investigation be carried out into how 9 contract soldiers from the 18th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, many from Dagestan, died. The official version is that they died on a shooting range in the Rostov oblast (near the border with Ukraine) on Aug 9 and 11.

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The funerals of many paratroopers and GRU military intelligence officers have been taking place in the last two days in the Pskov oblast in Russia with the dead buried without any indication of how they died and where. There are also efforts to stop people finding out.

Perhaps the most disturbing is the behaviour of one of the soldiers’ wives, or somebody pretending to be her.

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If not, then who is in those freshly-dug graves

Pokemon.

They've been dying off at an alarming rate and Japan forbids their burial.