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1,500 bodies of Russian soldiers found in south-eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro
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The A news reported, according to a Ukrainian official, the bodies of more than 1,500 Russian soldiers have been recovered in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

They had been taken to a total of four different morgues, the deputy mayor of the industrial city, Mychajlo Lyssenko, told the US-funded television station Nastoyashcheye Vremya.

He urged Russian mothers to come and collect their dead sons.

Lysenko said: "I don't want to bury them in mass graves. I don't want to cremate them. We are not brutes."

According to the report, the information could not be independently verified.

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According to the Ukrainian army, almost 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the Russian war almost seven weeks ago. Moscow, on the other hand, cites significantly lower losses and most recently named 1,351 dead soldiers from its own ranks.

Source: anews