Desperate Russian war widows have been advised to collect their husbands corpses from the battlefield if they want to bury them.
As Russia's death toll rises – with figures ranging anywhere from around 50k to well over 250k depending on where you look – married woman are stuck knowing that their husbands have been killed in Putin's Ukraine invasion . . . but that they can't bury them. But now one war widow has claimed that she was told to go to Ukraine and “dig them up” from the makeshift pit graves.
Nadezhda Kharichkina, 40, wife of Russian soldier Igor Kharichkin, 43, was bluntly told by his commanding officer to travel from Kaluga region to blood-stained Kharkiv region in Ukraine to collect the father-of-five’s remains. The distraught woman has been trying to retrieve his body for two months, even though the Russian army has failed to officially confirm that he was killed in battle.
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She was told to “come to Olshany on the frontline and dig up your husband.” She last heard from Igor on 7 September, and has now said: “My husband told me they were starving there – here's a picture I saw, he sent me.
“Zero clothes, he had abullet-proof vest – but it's unclear what condition it's in." She told Ostorozhno Novosti: “My husband's dead, according to his mates.”
His phone was stolen by his captors, she believed, yet she had received no official notification of his death from Russia ’s defence ministry which has sent hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths so far. Igor could have avoided war because of his five children, but he was lured to battle by the money offered by the Kremlin to recruit soldiers, local reports claim.
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The desperate wife travelled to Rostov-on-Don, where the command HQ of Putin’s war team is located, but there were no sign of his remains. Other widows have buried their “husbands” only to find out later that their men were still alive.
Kharichkina has demanded that her husband’s commander and the leadership of his 25th assault brigade face legal sanction over his demand that she travel to Ukraine to “dig up your husband,” but the Kremlin has not yet passed a comment.
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