During the occupation of Kherson, the Russian military threw the bodies of their dead colleagues into a local dump and burned them there, The Guardian writes , citing local residents and workers.
According to the interlocutors of the publication, in the summer, at the end of the occupation, the military made the landfill a restricted area and closed it from prying eyes. Residents said they saw open Russian trucks pulling up with black bags, which they threw away and then set on fire, filling the air with thick, acrid smoke and the smell of burning flesh.
“Every time our army fired on the Russians there, they took the remains to a landfill and burned them,” said Irina, a 40-year-old resident of Kherson.
At the end of June, Ukraine actively recaptured the city and Kyiv used Himars missiles to cause serious damage to bridges across the Dnieper, destroy Russian ammunition depots and hit enemy artillery and manpower, the newspaper notes. Around the same time, according to residents, the military began using the landfill.
The authors of the article write that independent verification of the claims of local residents is impossible, and the Ukrainian authorities said they could not say whether the claims were being investigated. The Guardian journalists visited the test site, located on the northwestern outskirts of the city, five days after the liberation of Kherson and spoke with the site's employees, as well as several residents of the city, who supported the statements made by other residents in the summer.
“The Russians brought a Kamaz truck full of garbage and corpses and unloaded everything together,” said a waste collector from Kherson, who asked not to be named. Do you think someone was going to bury them? They tossed them off and then littered them, that's all."
He said he did not see whether they were military or civilian bodies: “I did not see. I've said enough. I'm not afraid, I've been fighting since 2014. Was in the Donbass.
