Ukrainian military reported that Wagner Group ordered local authorities not to issue death certificates for killed troops, placing bodies in body bags without documentation, following particularly heavy casualties in the area.
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Ukrainian military reported that Wagner Group ordered local authorities not to issue death certificates for killed troops, placing bodies in body bags without documentation, following particularly heavy casualties in the area.
The occupying authorities have instructed the medical staff of the hospitals in temporarily occupied Horlivka in Donetsk Oblast to confiscate the documents of dead Wagner Group PMC mercenaries, not to conduct any forensic examination, and to pack the bodies in body bags for transportation.
Five Georgian volunteer soldiers were killed and one commander injured in a battle near Bakhmut.
424 children were most affected in Donetsk region, 266 in Kharkiv, 117 in Kyiv, 77 in Mykolaiv, 76 in Zaporizhzhia, 68 in Chernihiv, 67 in Kherson, 64 in Luhansk, and 32 in Dnipropetrovsk.
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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.157Z
Source story: day-274-2023-02-14