Residents and workers say occupying forces used site to burn bodies of fallen Russian soldiers
A Russian flag in the mud of the Kherson landfill.Last modified on Mon 21 Nov 2022 13.39 GMThe landfill site on the edge of Kherson offers some visible hints here and there, among the piles of rubbish, to what locals and workers say happened in its recent past. Russian flags, uniforms and helmets emerge from the putrid mud, while hundreds of seagulls and dozens of stray dogs scavenge around.
The reason for the jittery secrecy, several residents and workers at the site told the Guardian, was that the occupying forces had a gruesome new purpose there: dumping the bodies of their fallen brethren, and then burning them. They believe the Russians were disposing of the bodies of its soldiers killed during the heavy fighting of those summer days.
and spoke to employees of the site as well as several more of the town’s residents, who backed up the claims made by others in the summer.full of rubbish and corpses all together and unloaded,” said a rubbish collector from Kherson who asked not to be named. “Do you think someone was gonna bury them? They dumped them and then dumped the trash over them, and that’s it.”He said he did not see if bodies belonged to soldiers or civilians. “I didn’t see. I’ve said enough.
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