After President Volodymyr Zelensky’s interview with the BBC, Russian propaganda scrambled to “deny” the use of mobile crematoria by invaders in Ukraine.
That’s according to the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council.
According to the Center, mobile crematoria have been deployed in Ukraine since early March. Initially, it was assumed that they were intended to burn the bodies of fallen Russian servicemen in order to hide the actual number of casualties. However, after the atrocities committed by the Russians in Bucha, Irpin, and other Ukrainian cities were exposed after the settlements were liberated, it became clear that the cremation effort was intended including to cover up Russian war crimes.
Earlier, Ukraine’s military intelligence said that the Russians had deployed in Mariupol at least 13 mobile crematoria to get the bodies of killed civilians off the streets.
The intelligence also recorded the use of mobile crematoria in the Chernihiv region and in Novoaydar in the Luhansk region.
The disinformation watchdog has called on all witnesses of Russian atrocities to file their reports that would be used in international courts in the future to the official chatbot of the Security Service of Ukraine: @russian_war_tribunal_bot.
As reported, Zelensky said in an interview with the BBC that tens of thousands of people were killed and many went missing in Mariupol, while the fate of those forcibly deported to Russia remains unknown.
