A landfill on the outskirts of Kherson provides visible clues to local reports that Russian soldiers cremated the dead bodies of their comrades here, The Guardian reports.

Russian flags, military uniforms and helmets of Russian soldiers were among the items spotted among the piles of rubbish by British journalists who came to the site.

Residents of the city report that the Russian military has not allowed them to the training ground since the summer, and the place is heavily guarded by armed Moscow soldiers.

Several residents told The Guardian that the reason for the secrecy was that the occupying forces used the dump here to dump and then burn the bodies of comrades killed in Ukrainian bombing and fighting in the area.

Residents reported seeing Russian trucks carrying black sacks to the landfill, which were then set on fire, filling the air with the terrible smell of burning meat.

Residents of Kherson talk about the terrible deeds of the Russian military

“Every time our army bombed the Russians here, they transported the remains to the landfill and burned them there,” Iryna, a 40-year-old resident, told British journalists.

“The Russians came up with it [camion] Kamaz, full of garbage and corpses, shuffled and unloaded. Do you think someone was going to bury them? They threw their garbage at them and that’s all,” said a garbage man from Kherson who wished to remain anonymous.

At the same time, he stated that he did not see whether the bodies belonged to military personnel or civilians.

“I’ve said enough. I am not afraid, but I have been fighting since 2014. I was in Donbas. But the less you know, the better you sleep,” he added.

The Russian army occupied Kherson in the first days of the war

Another 45-year-old resident, Svitlana Viktorivna, said that for years she and her husband brought garbage here with a truck, but this summer the Russians put a roadblock at the entrance.

“We weren’t even allowed to go near the pit when the bodies were being burned,” she says.

Several residents of the Soviet-era apartment building also described a large cloud of smoke rising into the air when the Russians began burning operations.

“It made me sick when I smelled it. And it was also scary, because it smelled like burnt hair, it smelled like a dentist, when your teeth are drilled before filling. And the smoke was such that you couldn’t see the block opposite,” says Olesya Kokorina, a 60-year-old resident of Kherson, who lives on the 8th floor of this building.

On November 11, the Russian army announced the completion of its withdrawal from the western bank of the Dnieper, which also led to the abandonment of the city of Kherson, which was occupied by Moscow forces in the first days of the conflict launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24. .

Ukraine accuses Russian troops of committing a horrific number of acts of torture during the nearly 9-month occupation of the city.

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