This is the first time in the military history of mankind: the army refuses to take its deceased soldiers home.

“This is the first war in the history of mankind when the army refuses to take its deceased soldiers home. Never before in the history of mankind there hasn’t been anything like this,” said Vadym Denysenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, during the telethon. He also noted that the number of Russian prisoners of war was enormous. According to him, “there was a steadily large number of those who surrendered.” He added that the only thing that worried some of them was that they “would be tried in Russia later”.