Posted on 05/26/2015 12:22:21 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
Russia is using crematoriums on wheels to burn the bodies of its soldiers who die fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine, Bloomberg's Josh Rogin reports.
“The Russians are trying to hide their casualties by taking mobile crematoriums with them,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told Rogin. “They are trying to hide not only from the world but from the Russian people their involvement.”
The mobile crematoriums — which burn about eight to 10 bodies a day, according to Ukraine security service chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko — reveal how far Russia is willing to go to hide its military presence in the war.
"Every day, the hotline of the Security Service of Ukraine records a great of number of calls from dozens of Russian citizens who are looking for their relatives or Russian soldiers who have been sent to the territory of Ukraine," Nalyvaichenko said in January.
The Kremlin has denied involvement in Ukraine ever since Russian special forces occupied the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in February 2014.
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Acceptable losses, in your opinion?
They had the wife of the captured Spetsnaz Sergeant appear in Russian TV claiming that her husband was retired from the service. By now Russians have backpedaled their denial and admit that the captured men are indeed active GRU Spetsnaz. Public in Russia just doesn’t care that their TV is constantly caught lying.
Well, acceptable to Putin.
Russia is going to keep this war alive as most of their casualties are not the armed forces, but all sorts of criminal scum they recruit to fight against Ukraine for pay (who never get paid). There are open recruitment offices all over Russia! Russia is happy that there is war against Ukraine as they need Ukraine to be poor for psychological reasons (”see what happens if you want freedom and democracy”) and happy because their criminals will die.
Not really a bad idea. That’s how the Germans “recruited” a lot of their anti-partisan forces in the east. Convicts, court-martialed soldiers, Russian “volunteers”, etc. Dirlewanger and Kaminski Brigades were the best known, but there were plenty of others. New meaning of “acceptable losses”. Gets rid of criminals and the enemy at the same time.
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