{"id":120421,"date":"2023-11-15T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120421"},"modified":"2023-11-15T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:19:08","slug":"russian-war-widows-told-go-and-dig-up-husbands-corpses-to-give-them-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/russian-war-widows-told-go-and-dig-up-husbands-corpses-to-give-them-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian war widows told ‘go and dig up husbands corpses’ to give them funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desperate Russian war widows have been advised to collect their husbands corpses from the battlefield if they want to bury them.<\/p>\n

As Russia's death toll rises \u2013 with figures ranging anywhere from around 50k to well over 250k depending on where you look \u2013 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 \u201cdig them up\u201d from the makeshift pit graves.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s remains.\u200c 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.<\/p>\n

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She was told to \u201ccome to Olshany on the frontline and dig up your husband.\u201d She last heard from Igor on 7 September, and has now said: \u201cMy husband told me they were starving there \u2013 here's a picture I saw, he sent me.<\/p>\n

\u200c\u201cZero clothes, he had abullet-proof vest \u2013 but it's unclear what condition it's in." She told Ostorozhno Novosti: \u201cMy husband's dead, according to his mates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200cHis phone was stolen by his captors, she believed, yet she had received no official notification of his death from Russia \u2019s defence ministry which has sent hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths so far.\u200c 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.<\/p>\n

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