The Telegraph reported on an incredibly morbid tool that Russian soldiers may have in its arsenal. “Russia has mobile crematoriums in its arsenal that could follow invading forces and ‘evaporate’ dead soldiers, according to a report,” writes the New York Post.
The Telegraph reported on a video released by the British Ministry of Defense which shows “trucks that can incinerate bodies one at a time.” The report also suggested that the horrific trucks might be deployed with the Kremlin “in its war with Ukraine to hide the number of casualties.”
“If I was a soldier and knew that my generals had so little faith in me that they followed me around the battlefield with a mobile crematorium, or I was the mother or father of a son, potentially deployed into a combat zone, and my government thought that the way to cover up losses was a mobile crematorium, I’d be deeply, deeply worried,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told the Telegraph.
The footage was first posted back in 2013. “It’s a very chilling side effect of how the Russians view their forces,” said Wallace, who expects “to see some of the things they’ve done previously.”
Use of a mobile crematorium “probably says everything you need to know about the Russian regime,” wrote the Telegraph. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on Thursday and immediately started to launch missiles.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted, “Russian treacherously attacked our state this morning, as Nazi Germany did in #2WW years…as of today, our countries are on different sides of world history.”