45,000 body bags – Before the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the military purchased 45,000 body bags. Given Moscow’s belief in a short victorious war, the question must be asked: for whom were these body bags originally intended?
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Fair question, especially how Intelligence picked up Russia had mobile incinerators as if they had no intention of repatriation
(no idea if they were destroyed/retreated sonce start of the war?)
I think the poster is true. They were meant for dissidents/political leadership/civil servants and anyone who got hit in the cross fire.
It’s a tragic loss of life Putin and Russia alone has caused. This is 100% on them.
[I think the Poles might have an idea.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre)
We all understand for ”whom” they were for……..thankfully Ukrainians did a reverse uno
I think speculating is not getting us anywhere … body bags are for transporting and temporarily preserving bodies, if they wanted to get rid of people they wouldn’t first organise body bags if a ditch and a gun also did the job
There were speculations about russians having lists of Ukrainian citizens who they should kill, because those people were thread to russian occupational regime, but I do believe those speculations, because of all the shit we saw.
I don’t think it makes a ton of sense for these to be for political targets and protestors. You don’t need body bags for them because you’re not transporting them anywhere after they’re dead; you either kill them on site, or you kidnap them when they’re still alive and then bury them at the black site.
I think these were *supposed* to be “just in case” investments. You know, if the war went a little worse than expected. Not that that could actually happen of course, but they’re cheap, so what’s the harm, right?
Considering just how awful Russian logistics were at the start of the war, it seems incredibly strange that they’d suddenly have the foresight to buy thousands of spare bodybags.