Wagner Group reportedly using ordinary freight trucks to transport dead soldiers back to Russia
The Wagner Group has been using ordinary freight trucks to transport the bodies of its dead soldiers back to Russia from the battlefield in Ukraine, a popular Russian Telegram channel reported on Thursday.
Disavtotrans, a company based in Russia’s Rostov region, reportedly serves as an intermediary for the transportation orders, which appear “practically every day.”
The Telegram channel’s report mentioned one case in which the Wagner Group offered to pay 60,000 rubles (about $885) for a set of bodies weighing a total of six metric tons (about 4,400 pounds) to be taken to the Moscow region.
The private military company reportedly requires that the trucks have refrigerated storage areas.
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