CONVOY FROM HELL
Putin’s ‘ghost buses’ secretly shipping ‘war-ravaged corpses of teen conscripts’ out of Ukraine, witness claims
VLADIMIR Putin's "ghost buses" are said to be secretly shipping the war-ravaged dead bodies of teen Russian soldiers out of Ukraine.
The corpses of Russian soldiers are reportedly being taken back to Russia via Belarus in special planes, trains, and buses at night to avoid attracting attention.
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Passengers at a train station in Mazyr in Belarus were "shocked" at the number of bodies being loaded up - while hospital staff elsewhere warned of "overflowing" morgues.
Video appeared to show a convoy of Russian buses with the 'V' sign on the side for carrying corpses through the Belarusian city of Homel.
The 'V' symbol has been used to refer to Belarus on Russian military vehicles.
It is thought the human “cargo” inside the ghostly buses is from battles with the Ukrainian troops in the Chernihiv region.
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According to the , the person filming the convoy of medical ambulances said: "The wounded are 'children', young men born in 2003.
“They are all last autumn's conscripts, and they get delivered here without eyes, ears, with their intestines twisted."
Employees at the region's clinical hospital claimed the bodies of more than 2,500 Russian soldiers have already been shipped back to Russia.
Homel is Belarus' largest city after the capital Minsk.
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Meanwhile, medical staff in Mazyr described "overflowing" morgues in the city less than 20 miles from the Ukraine-Belarus border.
Officials at the hospital are alleged to have begun discharging patients as early as March 1 due to the sheer number of wounded Russian soldiers.
A patient told : "There are so many wounded Russians there - it's just a horror. Terribly disfigured.
"It is impossible to listen to their moans throughout the whole hospital."
A doctor at the city's main hospital said: "There are not enough surgeons. Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains.
"After someone made a video about it and it went on the internet, the bodies were loaded at night so as not to attract attention."
A Mazyr resident added: "Passengers at the Mazyr train station were shocked by the number of corpses being loaded on the train."
Another graphic video appeared to show a railway carriage filled with bodies in Russian uniforms wrapped in plastic.
Radio Free Europe, which shared the video, claimed many of the bodies belonged to Russian soldiers as young as 20.
The carriage was stopped in the city of Voznesensk north of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.
Voznesensk was the scene of fierce fighting this month due to its strategic importance as a majority Russian-speaking city close to Ukraine's second-biggest nuclear power plant.
Ukraine's military said more than 15,000 Kremlin troops have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
And one US intelligence expert puts the death toll at around 7,000 - but said a further 20,000 may have been wounded.
Moscow this week even admitted it has lost more than 10,000 troops.
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Russia's previously undisclosed total death toll figure was revealed by a pro-Kremlin newspaper and laid bare the true cost of Putin's disastrous invasion.
Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko is a prominent Putin supporter and has allowed Russian troops to be deployed across the country.
It comes as a UK military expert claims Russian troop morale is collapsing in the face of heavy casualties and logistical nightmares.
Professor Michael Clarke, former director of the Royal United Services Institute think tank said on Thursday: "The Russians are making almost every tactical mistake it is possible to make."
Last week, five paras from the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment — considered the toughest in the Russian military — were killed, including one of Vladimir Putin’s top commanders.
Morale among his troops has collapsed with some now shooting themselves to avoid being sent to the front line.
And Putin has reportedly lost a 15th top commander since the start of his war.
The death of Colonel Alexei Sharov comes as Russia continues to suffer its worst massacre of military brass since World War Two.
Sharov was commander of the 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade of Russia's marine corps.
He was killed Mariupol, where more than 200,000 people are trapped in the southern Ukrainian city.
The city is being laid to waste by Vladimir Putin’s besieging forces, who are battling fierce Ukrainian resistance.
Sharov's death was revealed by Ukrainian army officer Anatoliy Stefan on his social media accounts.
Russian troops have been pounding Mariupol and have reportedly broken through three defensive lines with fighting now raging in the centre.
Civilians there have been living in apocalyptic conditions with kids dying of thirst as people drink radiator water and eat dogs.
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Sharov's death follows that of Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko, Commander of the 45th Engineering Regiment.
He was allegedly killed alongside 18 of his comrades in a major offensive in Ukraine.
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