Allegations have been raised that Russia took advantage of the night to move around 2,500 dead bodies from Ukraine to Belarus.



On the 18th, British daily The Telegraph reported that the bodies of Russian soldiers had been transported to their home country via Gomel, a city in southeastern Belarus adjacent to Ukraine, citing Free Europe Broadcasting.



A doctor from a local hospital in Gomel, interviewed by Free Europe, said that by the 13th of this month, more than 2,500 bodies had been transported to the area before being loaded onto trains and planes to Russia.



Residents of the area also said that medical institutions in the region are saturated with wounded Russian soldiers transported across the border, and the mortuary is full of bodies.



Free Europe reported that some local patients who were hospitalized were discharged due to the lack of beds.



A doctor from the nearby city of Mazar said, "Initially, the body was put on an ambulance or a train bound for Russia. started," he said.



It is difficult to ascertain whether the bodies of Russian soldiers were actually transported in large numbers via Belarus because the authorities tightly control the information, including the threat that medical personnel could be fired if they disclose information about the Russian casualties.



The Russian military has not announced the number of casualties since it announced earlier this month that about 500 soldiers were killed and 1,597 wounded between the 24th and 2nd of this month, when the Russian army invaded Ukraine.



Meanwhile, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry claimed in a tweet on the 19th that 14,400 Russian soldiers were killed and 95 Russian military planes, 115 helicopters and 1,470 armored vehicles were destroyed.



Earlier, US intelligence officials estimated that at least 7,000 Russian soldiers died in the 20 days after the start of the war.