The Black Tulips take pride in helping repatriate those who gave their lives fighting for Ukraine: ‘We’re helping bring our guys – who defended their country – home to their families, to their mothers, fathers, daughters and sons’
The wire, Mr. Yukov fears, could be an indication that the corpse is boobytrapped. The other five members of his recovery team crouch 100 metres away, their faces turned from the possible explosion.
The volunteer body collectors are gentle, though far from respectful, as they lift the enemy soldier’s remains from the battlefield. “For me, it’s just a stain that we need to remove from our land,” said 55-year-old Vasily Zagorodnyuk as he watched his colleagues photograph the evidence around body 299. There’s a ripple of laughter as one of them reads the words written on the dead man’s lighter: “My soul is looking for romance, but my ass is looking for adventure.
“Second World War battles were fought in precisely this place,” Mr. Yukov said. “It’s exactly the same story.”, Mr. Yukov became well-known in Donbas as one of the few who would regularly go into the no-man’s land between the positions of the Ukrainian army and the Kremlin-backed militias to collect the dead. That neutral role has become impossible in this new, larger war. “The Russian army is not negotiating at all. If anyone goes near, they promise to eliminate them,” Mr. Yukov said.
is deemed to be dead Russian number 300. The only other items to survive the fire that must have raged inside the APC are a rusty knife, some broken pieces of body armour, a melted Kalashnikov cartridge, and tiny pieces of teeth and bone. Mr. Verzilov that while the Kremlin has been trying to keep the real death toll hidden from the Russian public, traffic to his website – much of it from Russia – suggests “a huge demand for people, to get information and to read what’s happening.”
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