The bodies of the Russian military who died in the Sumy region in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have not yet been taken to the Russian Federation. For almost a month they have been in special packages on the streets of the city or in the yards, he told " Director of the Health Department of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Anatoly Kotlyar.

“The other side doesn’t need them, they don’t take them away, they stay with us and pose a very big threat, primarily environmental. Decaying, the human body releases cadaveric poison,"

Most of these bodies are undocumented, unmarked and difficult to identify..

“According to the norm of humanitarian international law, biological fences should be taken in order to later determine by DNA who it is,” Kotlyar noted, speaking about the humane development of events..

The leadership of the Sumy region ordered 10 refrigerators for storing bodies, but due to the blockage of the railway, they could not be delivered. Therefore, the found bodies of the military of the enemy army of the aggressor are now simply packed in plastic bags and stored.

In the region, they are already thinking about organizing a temporary burial of bodies that, at the end of the war, can be identified and returned to relatives.. A temporary burial site has not yet been determined..

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It should be noted that Ukraine has repeatedly asked, including the Red Cross, to help with the removal of the bodies of the Russian military to the border from the Russian Federation, but did not receive this assistance..