Crimean military enlistment officers come up with money-making scheme at expense of fallen soldiers

Russian military enlistment officers in the occupied peninsula of Crimea are making money out of the bodies of soldiers who have died in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Source: the NGO CrimeaSOS, referring to sources

Details: Crimean military enlistment officers reportedly deliver the bodies of deceased soldiers to the Simferopol city morgue, but they tell each soldier’s family that their relative's body has just been found in the intense combat action area and is hard to transport. They suggest paying about 100,000-150,000 roubles [approximately US$1,000-1,500 – ed.] for the delivery of the body.

The enlistment officers use the inconvenient location of the body, which makes transportation difficult, to justify this scheme. Otherwise, the family will have to wait a long time before they receive it.

So far, there is information about at least three or four such cases.

CrimeaSOS stresses that the Russian military enlistment officers are war criminals who have been illegally drafting and mobilising local residents in Crimea to the Russian army since the beginning of the occupation of the peninsula.

This is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime according to the Rome Statute. All war crimes have no statute of limitations, and war criminals may be held accountable even decades after committing a crime.

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