Ukraine says the Russian army has lost so many soldiers that it has no room to store their dead in the occupied city of Melitopol. A press release from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service said on Thursday that the Russians were looking for “extra refrigerators” to store the bodies of their dead soldiers, after the Russians ran out of space in a meat-packing factory that was turned into a morgue. . “The occupation administration of Melitopolis is urgently looking for additional freezers and industrial refrigerators. “It is known that the meat factory of the city, which was turned into a morgue, is already completely filled with the corpses of the killed occupiers and can no longer accept more,” said in a statement the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. According to the Ukrainian government, the Russian ministry began reusing the meat-packing plant on June 6 and turned it into a morgue. According to the Ukrainians, the owners of the meat packing factory were informed that they would have to hand over the factory for free to preserve the corpses of the fallen Russians. The Ukrainians added that the Russian corpses were being transported to the meat packing factory outside Melitopolis. The Ukrainians said that these soldiers were probably killed in fierce battles near the towns of Polohy and Huliaipole in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia. “These events are associated with great losses of the occupiers in manpower,” wrote the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. “In addition, the long-term storage of the bodies of the dead is due to the intentions of the Russian leadership to hide the true size of the losses from the Russian electorate.” This information from the Ukrainian government comes just a week after Putin ordered more than 134,500 conscripts to join the Russian army. Russian forces occupied Melitopolis in February. It has since been under the control of the Kremlin, although the Russians have faced constant resistance from the city’s Ukrainian population. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not gone well, especially since it has suffered “catastrophic losses” from its junior officers. Last week, Ukraine claimed to have destroyed an entire Russian army in Izyum. The Ukrainian military also said this week that one of its brigades had destroyed a “select” Russian unit after a 14-hour battle in eastern Ukraine. Separately, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has lost at least 200 aircraft in the Ukraine war. Western officials estimate that about 15,000 Russians have been killed in the invasion. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that 31,500 Russian officials had been killed so far.
