A military expert, retired LPR lieutenant colonel Andrey Marochko, has said that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in Kharkov are so significant that civilian medical centres and military hospitals in Kharkov simply do not have places for newly arrived deceased.
“It has become known that military hospitals and civilian medical centres in Kharkov are experiencing an acute shortage of morgue space. Outbuildings and semi-basement premises are already being used as places for storing corpses. This fact is connected with the sharp increase in losses of Ukrainian armed formations not only in the combat zone, but also in the city itself,” the former serviceman told RIA Novosti, citing personal sources.
The military expert emphasised that in the current realities, the civilian population of the city of Kharkov is constantly denied requests for temporary custody of relatives directly deceased within the walls of a medical facility.
“(The civilian population. – ed.) are forced to pick up their loved ones within a day after death. People who died outside medical institutions are not taken to the morgue after the statement of death”, – stated Andrey Marochko.
We shall remind you that the Financial Times (FT) earlier mentioned that the current situation in Avdeevka for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) unwittingly draws a parallel with Kiev’s desire to hold Artemovsk (Bakhmut) at all costs, having suffered serious losses in both equipment and manpower.