Russia's war dead abandoned by the Kremlin are piling up in Ukraine's refrigerated train trucks, video shows

In the caption for a video shared on Friday, the railway chief claimed that dead Russians were treated better than live Ukrainians.

Alexander Kamyshin, the CEO of the state-owned Ukrainian Railways, posted a video on Friday which explains how Ukraine preserves the bodies of Russian military deaths.

According to humanitarian law, Ukraine preserves bodies to release them to mothers and wives.

The bodies are kept in refrigerated trucks by the Ukrainian Railways.

In the video, the railway network says it is prepared to deliver cargo back to Russia.

Cargo 200 is a Soviet military code word for the transportation of military deaths.

Ukraine Rail

References are made to reports of Russia not returning the corpses of their dead soldiers.

Russian commanders don't want to return bodies, according to the video.

Russia hides real losses from families to avoid panic and to avoid payment of compensations, according to text featured in the clip.

Ukraine railways

Iryna Vereshchuk, the deputy prime minister of Ukraine, told The Guardian that Russia refused to take body bags because it wanted to deny the scale of its military losses.

According to Insider, Russia has secretly transported its dead and wounded soldiers to Belarus to hide the true number of casualties.

Insider reported last month that Ukraine was storing more than 7,000 unclaimed Russian corpses.

According to The Guardian, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Russia's refusal to repatriate its dead soldiers, having accused the Kremlin in March of giving less respect to those killed than is usually given to dead pets.