Burial is impossible in Popasna and Rubizhny because of the occupiers/Global News
As of April 12, the difficult situation remains in Popasna and Rubizhne, in the Luhansk region. Due to the partial occupation of the cities, it is impossible to take out the bodies of the dead.
Head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai spoke about the situation in the cities.
How the dead are buried
According to Gaidai, people are forced to bury the dead in the courtyards of residential sectors on their own.
Where access is available, bodies are collected and transported to suburban cemeteries. They are buried in special packages, on the plates they write as much information about the person as possible. The time will come, and we will definitely do everything humanly. Eternal memory,” added the head of the Lugansk OVA.
The bodies are stored in basements
Gaidai said that the morgues in the cities under his control are overflowing with the bodies of the dead and the dead. Also, the bodies lie in the basements.
“It is impossible to store them, therefore, during quiet breaks from shelling, volunteers and public service workers hide the bodies in new specific places. All cemeteries are not within cities, due to shelling, burials there impossible,” he explained.
There is a difficult situation with graves in Popasnaya and Rubizhnoye/Photo by Sergey Gaidai
Earlier, Gaidai said that it was impossible to deliver anything to Popasnaya and Rubizhnoye, there are already fighting inside the cities. Evacuation buses, which were supposed to take people out, came under fire.
