Yurii Fenenko dreaded the day he knew would surely come, when the body of someone he was close to was brought in
the besieged Ukrainian city of Chernihiv
“It was the body of a dear friend and wife of one of my best mates,” Fenenko said in an interview at the weekend, bursting into tears at the memory. “The car she was driving hit a landmine as she was trying to flee a village where she lived near Chernihiv, which had been occupied by the Russians.”Before the war, Fenenko examined an average of four bodies a day – mostly people who had died from disease, or occasionally in a car accident or gun violence.
“Before the war, I had seen bodies completely torn apart by accidental explosions,” he said. “But never in such numbers.” Fenenko said the most unusual thing he had found in bodies was probably fléchettes – small metal darts contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground. Once released from the shell, they disperse in a conical arch about 300m wide and 100m long.
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