How volunteers try to identify corpses on Ukraine's battlefields | DW News
No one knows how many soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. A few weeks ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Ukrainian military death toll was 31,000, but independent experts say the real number is probably much higher. Russia doesn’t release numbers. In the chaos of advance or retreat, the bodies of soldiers from both sides are often left behind. DW correspondent Jan-Philipp Scholz accompanied volunteers trying to find and identify them.
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#Ukraine
Thank you for saving the corpses and the dignity of fallen heroes. It will help families close this painful chapter and give them a place to grieve. We grieve with you.
Couldn't have said it better, thank you. Prayers for the dead and their families. 🙏
At least ukrane soldiers have dignerty and feelings for not only there dead soldiers but Russian soldiers has well God bless them and help them throu this terrible war against that head case Putin and his land crab alf
@@alf3597 The powerful will negotiate one day, but the dead will not come back. May they rest in peace, no matter which side. Never again!
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I feel sorry for both sides. I could only imagine the mothers and fathers that have lost their sons or daughters in this horrible war.
something wrong you
@@philmccrackin9114 ???
Well, the Russians asked for it.
All this war can end today if Ukraine stops invading Russia
War is very scaring peace to the world 🌎
Enormous respect to the people of Ukraine. What you've been dealt is not good at all but you remain very decent human beings. Love from Uganda
Kyekyo nange mpagira Ukraine ❤❤
Ukraine started this war
I’m surprised they didn’t all have metal tags.
Looks like many were blown apart, and that animals had made off with many of the remains. Many of the tags were probably destroyed or lost.
Hats off to these SOLDIERS....VERY BRAVE AND SMART.
despite all of this Russia GDP growth faster than the west,
With the floods in Omsk the GDP will skyrocket now.
no it doesn't, on an average yearly basis it's either barely below or significantly lower than that of western countries
A war based economy Always falsely grows...the long-term consequences are disastrous
That is, why they have to take Money out of the Pension fund.
Despite failing to take Kyiv in 3 days and the big new aid package Russia thinks it can still win.
intresting they only found russians and not ukrainians .do all these teams always find "russian" remains ?
Statistically speaking, this is far too small a sample size to draw any conclusions.
The russians tend to dont carry their soldiers corpses thats why ukranians have to do ita and then give them to russia back. Ukranians try to carry their soldiers corpses away imedIatly after they died, but it isnt always possible! There arent any ceasefires to carry away the corpses
Far more russians also die than ukranians roughly 1 to 4 thats a fact
@@ElTIBURON826 This is true. Mordor acting like Mordor, who would've thought?
@@ElTIBURON826 Ukraine by Marvel - no aviation, no fleet, no rockets, 1 to 5 artillery, 1 to 10 drones and still 1 to 4 KIA, genetics laboratories was true? USA research in super-dupa-soldiers was sucksassfull
Doing the Lord's work! "They kill us, but we remain human." I couldn't have put it better. Kudos to the soldiers who don't lose sight of what they're fighting for and hold human dignity dear to their hearts! It brings to mind the history of the American Field Service, the volunteer wartime ambulance service turned cultural exchange program. Proud to be an alumni and proud of anyone who fights for peace, freedom and human rights.
This task will go on forever; many thanks to these volunteers for their efforts.
😢 humanity
Sending peace love to the world 🌎 ❤❤❤🐘
Right now the issues is win!. The heroes will not be forgotten, they gave their lives for their homeland and freedom.
There were no Ukrainian soldiers corpses, those were civilians or Russian soldiers corpses, because only very very very few Ukrainian soldiers killed in this war. (According to western mainstrean medias).
nope, hard to tell but I'd figure there's something like 150-200k ukrainian soldiers dead as well
@@altaruss2838 he's a propagandist putting words in people's mouths. This very report says they don't know the dead ECT Edit: Well you're probably a propagandist too. So it's weird but I'd figure I'd say it in case anyone read his comment.
@@DSan-kl2yc Yes they don't know the KIA though Zelensky officially stated 31K and meanwhile, they lack manpower despite having 850 K in the past. Russia has 617K in Ukraine. Now you can calculate how many should have gone if Ukraine lacks man power and cannot even rotate its troops properly.
@@rouz0longest 3 days in military history 🇬🇧♥️🇺🇦
@@A4Natty DO you think i should even talk with a person who doesn't know the story of 3 days
Have they found the missing 700,000??
Kiev oficial recognize 70-80 k missing! but who know how many are in reality missing ?
@@camencowogh8333😂😂 and 31,000 KIA. You deduce if that data is realistic 😂
all lies! There were only 31K KIA in Ukraine and all bodies have been already recovered. UKA lacks manpower because it only had 850 K last year and apparently 3 to 400K went on holiday or on sick leave.
Source?
@@guydreamryou hate reality or something?
Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Oklahoma USA 🇺🇦🇺🇲
And those who are missing
What's Sholtz scared of? Taurus Taurus Taurus
Peranglah biar kalian saling melenyapkan agar tidak ada lagi kedamaian bagi kalian yang lemah
Who's helping identify those in the mass grave in Gaza?
Not the west hopefully.
obviously they re all martyrs and no combatants
Probably their own people like Ukrainenis doing it for themselves ?
Try searching the internet. This video is about Ukraine.
over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
50k soldiers only from columbia fighting for Ukriane And 300 to 500k combined mercenaries from both sides. When private russian journos confirm death with a very very big amount i.e 30k soldiers which is a big amount. From that day I 100% understood mercenaries are the most that died in Ukraine Russian war.
This dry bones show that they left this soldiers for a long time to decay.
What a tragedy....time to stop the war. Peace!
over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
If only it was as easy as saying that
@@cagliari5984 It's all about taking the first step: negotations
@@trqsteryes! Putin finally should negotiate and leave ukraine now.
@@trqster they took those steps. It went nowhere. Russia continues it's assault. Russia doesn't want to stop. Russia is attacking. And it won't stop it's attacks.
Just waste of live because of politicians who are sitting in their luxury homes.
The USA as sent ATACMS Block IA- M39A1 missile with GPS-aided guidance to Ukraine weeks ago SO when will Germany supply the Taurus KEPD-350 German air-launched cruise missile
What difference will it make?
Hopefully never if you want Ukraine to still exist by summers end
Imagine seeing your relative off alive and well, perhaps with them even a bit excited, only to later be told that they have died in combat. Then you receive a small box with a few bone fragments, all that’s left. War is an unjust horror. May the dead know rest.
Volunteers are free workers ??
Whats your point, bot?
@@carn1fex_ The point was to identify bots and he was successful
They don't know now and they'll definitely don't know at the end of the war. Sad, sad, sad sad..
The sacrificial lambs of NATO expansion.
sacrificial lambs of russian expansion you wanted to say
It is all because of Russia's imperialism. Soviet union!
Of NATO's. This block is expanding, not Russia
It's NATO! NATO want the war or they would have allowed Ukraine dialogues, for Nutrality...they are hungry to expand and include Ukraine but do not know it will be possible...unless they want a nuclear war in which there.will be No Ukraine, no Europe, no Russia...
The sacrificial orcs of Mordor's expansion.
They died for nothing..
Is it a must to say both sides
Please stop this War. Why wasting life?
Yeah, tell that to Putin.
Go tell your uncle Putin
Putin is responding. The West started this. The beginning was the coup engineered by the West against the legitimate government, Victor Yanukovich. The new NATO's puppet regimes was trying to become a missile station for NATO. Remember this, Freedom does NOT mean you are FREE to pose a threat to others. So here come the response.
Tell Ukrainians to give back Russian lands. Russia is simply taking back their centuries old land.
Yeah Go and tell that to your Uncle Zelensky.
What a shame Slav against Slav and all for someone else’s benefit,how was it impossible to make peace in the early 2000’s instead of attacking your own Ukrainians
You call mercenaries volunteers .
how are they mercenaries?
They are terrorist not volunteer and mercenaries
You call Mordor the Shire.
Thanks 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Russian body? Na, you're lying
Why don’t you come over and check for yourself?
The depravity of Mordor's minions on full display in the comments.
Taurus Taurus Taurus
But there was no point on this extent. If Ukraine remained neutral, as per the agreement, but they decided to get a taste of puppetry... For a few of dollars.
Why do they refer to the Ukraine front line as The Meat Grinder?
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over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
because it is? often there are more deaths when fighting over basically any settlement than its pre-war population
Putin sent many of his prisoners to the front line.
Because they dying for uncle Sam
Avcording to Western media, Ukrainian soldiers never die.
and the jaundiced tabloid san shows all the victories of the Ukrainians)) the Ukrainians today surrendered three settlements... 2 more in the semicircle.... The Ukrainians proudly run to Lvov, and the Russians shamefully catch up with them)))
This is a calamity ad it must stop.victory is saving lives ad diplomacy hardly ever leaves a devilish foot print
There are many versions of victory in this war, and the most dangerous one is from the hot heads in the West, which is to strategically defeat Russia.
@@L110508 russia is strategically defeating itself, as long as ukraine keeps recieving the materiel, russia has to keep digging deeper and deeper into its stockpiles
@@altaruss2838 actually, the opposite is true, in this case.
@@user-yc6jg7zj3c it ain't, russia just doesn't have the economy to support this sort of expenditure, why do you think the US can get away with sending just 5-10% of its defense budget in form of weapons to ukraine for them to hold the relative stalemate there?
@@altaruss2838 I reckon, reality says something else, despite percentages you're claim here. I'm not saying that the US and the European countries does not make any difference when we all know that that's what has kept Ukrainians going, otherwise they would've been defeated time ago. Russia might not have the economy to fight this war for the long run, when we know that they are not fighting a single country, but many at once, and certainly, those will do anything to keep it going until "the last Ukrainian", since it's cheaper and less dangerous that way, or (big, loud OR here), Ukraine's government grow balls and realize they've been nothing but a cheap, disposable tool at NATO's disposal and call Russia for negotiations in their own (and solely) benefit, but you and I know who's gonna tell $elensky not to do so. Russia has the lead, and not only over Ukraine, since several NATO nations are reluctant to support a war is not theirs, which neither represented a threat to them.
Russia war deaths 179.589 men Injured: 24.760
More secre more successful.
FAB500 incoming 😂😂😂😂
I hope all these wonderful men and women who retrieve the bodies of the Fallen are well taken care of by qualified mental health professionals. I cannot even begin to imagine what they must go through, the horrors they must see. I have nothing but respect for them. They do an outstandingly noble, but very heavy job. They must bring such peace to the families of the retrieved Fallen. СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ 🇺🇦❤🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦
How many not accounted for?
over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
To “remain human” is Ukraines business, not Orcs … ☝🏻😎🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦✨
Drink your kool aid Ukrobot
your showing us how Ukraine dead are important why not show us palestine who are unarmed paralized with fear and other dead with hand tied behind and many under bombed buildings
Disturbing images?! I have no idea what you're talking about... 😂
US jokers 😂😂😂😂😂
God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
All BCoz Putin was born 😢
''I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigmatic enema bag : but perhaps there is a key. The key is a colonscopy bag.'' Sir Winston Churchill
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Ukranian need to rise up and get Zelensky tried for treason.
they died for zelensky so he can spend time on a tropical island after the war. What a waste
Hail King Zalensky 👑
Try NOT to identify - no identity, no payment
270,000 russians or 300,0000 560,000 ukranian soldiers another 1,3 million civilians dead !
Source?
@@guydreamr search US generals on Ukranian losses
@@guydreamr soon in a few years you will find out the True numbers of this disaster
@@KlodianHysi Search it yourself. You made the claim, you back it up. Until you do, your statements are rejected.
@@KlodianHysi Yeah, soon in a few years I'll meet the Easter Bunny.
''When I look into Putin's 👁 💀 👁 eyes I see the KGB.'' Republican Senator John McCain
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over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
I see a murderer
…. thts wre US funds go… will turn d tides …. high tides of death bodies
Who invaded Ukraine? Putin. Educate yourself
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Putin agrees with you!
''An appeaser is someone who feeds 🐊🐊🐊crocodiles 🐊🐊🐊hoping to be the last to be eaten.'' Sir Winston Churchill
Not said by Churchill. You are misquoting. What Churchill said was: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely."
over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
Population in Russia is declining rapidly and thousands of Russian men have perished trying to conquer someone's land.
Russian land ? Russians live there
@@stevanjakovljevic8390 heheh, I live in Spain, so now the ground under my feet belongs to my country of origin XD What a nonsense! 🤣
@@Ma-tv5qs Most of the combatants were born in the USSR, if we talk about statehood -then technically it is really their land, if in terms of nationality -then the vast majority of the population of eastern Ukraine is really Russian
@@Ma-tv5qs check on wikipedia the ethnical stats of donbas and crimea, it is not an opinion
@@gremlin633 You really have no capacity to understand what I was talkinkg about
Russia died For smth, they will win, mind my words, THEY WILL WIN now look at Russia, were not experienced in the Beggining, now look at em HAIL KIND PUTIN 👑 Slava Russi! 🇷🇺💪 (Idek if u gays laughes at me in the reply section)
Zlensky will not gonna surrender until he see a mountain high pile of uk,rainian corpse
he already saw that. He won't until he's given order to surrender by his bosses.
@@L110508 I think you're right - the puppet is like the monkey and the organ grinder!
alarm, alarm, russian troll detector activated
@@Ma-tv5qs save Ukrainian lives, go fight in the frontlines instead of them
Poor west. Lies. Lies.
over 500000 dead , no respect for the dead, the west should be ashamed to continue this war, for over 2 years
Imagine it's not lies. What's now?
So sad. We know why the Ukrainian heroes died. They died defending their country, and for their children's future. Russians died for nothing. No one attacked them. This was a Kremlin-manufactured war, with a Kremlin-created "enemy". Anyone who persists in believing otherwise needs mental help.
Kremlin has NOT been active on Maidan! Listen how much Mrs. Nuland proudly told the US had invested in this regime change........
No, the people who support ukraine isnotreal and china's taiwan are the insanes
Ukraine is fighting for its survival--literally, nationally, and culturally. If USA cares about democracy in Europe, they should help Ukraine to defend herself.
Is there any democracy in Ukraine? Since when?
@@claus-not-santahow was zelensky elected out of nowhere.. Russia is basically North Korea now!
When did Ukraine have democracy or u heard that on the news?
Iran 🇮🇷 support Palestine 🇵🇸 Lithuania 🇱🇹 support Israel 🇮🇱 Respect to Iran 🇮🇷 Lithuania 🇱🇹 is on the wrong side of history
"The wrong side of history". The most idiotic statement of the 21 century.
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Uhm, the ukriane is leaving soldiers fields......nobody cares about it