Gruesome photos of dead Russian soldiers are being shared online by Ukrainian officials to combat Kremlin censorship of its deadly invasion — while another video shows weeping Russian fighters admitting to war crimes.
The images are being posted on various Telegram channels run by Ukraine’s interior ministry and Security Service as the violence continues to escalate.
One grim photo shows the mutilated body of a Russian soldier lying in a field with his flesh and organs alongside him.
Bodies of Russian soldiers lie outside a school destroyed not far from the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
Photos of dead Russian soldiers are being shared online by Ukrainian officials. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
Days after launching the full-scale attack, Moscow was still refusing to disclose how many of its own soldiers had been killed or captured.
Another features a man dressed in his camouflage uniform lying frozen in the snow close to bombed Russian tanks and vehicles.
Other images show the charred or bloodied remains of troops lying on roadsides that have been obliterated.
Russian troops were met with huge resistance from Ukrainian forces after President Vladimir Putin gave the orders to invade last week.
Police officers prepare to remove the bodies of passersby killed in yesterday’s airstrike that hit Kyiv’s main television tower on March 2, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images
A body lies next to damaged cars in the central square following shelling of the city hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy
Other images show the charred or bloodied remains of troops lying on roadsides. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty ImagesBut days after launching the full-scale attack, Moscow was still refusing to disclose how many of its own soldiers had been killed or captured.
Russia’s defense ministry only admitted on Sunday that they had experienced some losses, but only went as far as saying the number was far lower than those suffered by Ukraine.
In addition to the photos of slain soldiers, Ukrainian officials are parading captured Russian forces on social media by posting videos of them weeping and admitting to war crimes.
A police officer covers the bodies of passersby killed in yesterday’s airstrike that hit Kyiv’s main television tower on March 2, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images
The body of a victim of shelling in a residential area lies on a stretcher in a corridor in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
The images are being posted on various Telegram channels run by Ukraine’s interior ministry and Security Service. AP Photo/Serhii NuzhnenkoIn one of the confessional videos, one soldier claimed that Russian forces were killing their own wounded soldiers and then just leaving their bodies behind without informing their relatives, Ukrainian officials said.
“We are killing civilians who haven’t done anything wrong,” a Russian soldier said in one video when he was asked what he was doing in Ukraine.
Another confessed: “Let Vladimir Putin see this. Enough. It’s been a meat grinder here. Children are being killed.”
Russian troops were met with huge resistance from Ukrainian forces. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
The dead bodies of soldiers are seen in a military vehicle on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. AP Photo/Serhii NuzhnenkoOthers cried as they called relatives to reveal they had been captured, including some who said they didn’t know they were being sent to fight.
“I became a prisoner of war in Ukraine,” one soldier said during a call. “When we were sent here, we were told that we were going as peacekeepers … but in fact a war has now broken out and we are aggressors.”
Residents carrying water walk briskly past the bodies of dead Russian soldiers. MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES/Shutterstock