Russia

Tapped Calls Expose Russia’s Heinous Treatment of Own Dead Troops

‘DON’T FREAK OUT’

Efforts to discreetly transport corpses are so slow that by the time bodies are returned to Russian families, they’re already “half-decomposed,” newly intercepted calls suggest.

A Russian soldier patrols in a street of Mariupol
(Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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