On the Russia-Ukraine War, the corpse of a Russian next to a position of the 35th Ukrainian Marine Brigade, on the southern front in Donetsk, July 2023..

　 The corpses of Russian soldiers, abandoned in July 2023, litter the side of a position of the 35th Ukrainian Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Army on the southern front of Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. When Ukrainian troops liberated Staromaiorske (Staromaiorske) on July 30, 2023, Ukrainian soldiers fought beside the corpses of Russian soldiers for a month. Ukrainian troops recaptured the town of Staromaiorske on the southern front of Donetsk Oblast on July 30, 2023. Not more than about 10 meters from the Ukrainian positions, the corpses of Russian soldiers lay abandoned for a month. invading in early June, the Ukrainian soldiers continued to fire. Ukrainian troops were at the entrance to Zaporizhia Oblast in the southern part of Donetsk Oblast. Finally, on July 30, they liberated Staromaiorske, a town on the vast plain.

　The smell of decomposition from the corpses of Russian soldiers is most unpleasant in less than a minute after an explosion. The bodies of dead Russian soldiers lay on the ground next to their helmets, dressed in their uniforms and bulletproof vests, flies buzzing around them. The Russians were ultimately unable to defend the occupied town of Staromaiorske.　Maxim, the 25-year-old head of the Ukrainian army's mortar unit, said, "It is not our business to dispose of the bodies of Russian soldiers. We were not ordered by our commanders to dispose of the bodies." He stated. The Russian troops dug trenches in the Ukrainian tree line as a fortification as well, with dozens of mortar shells a few meters away.

 　Ukrainian forces continued to clash with Russian troops in vast numbers. The Russians built defensive nets and trenches and defended themselves with fighter jets, drones, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. Even after the occupation of Staromaiorske and the collapse of the Russian army, the Ukrainian government would not disclose the number of war dead, wounded or missing in action of the Ukrainian army. On the flat plain ground, with no wall backing or building defenses, between the pits left by logs, ditches, trenches, and holes protecting Ukrainian soldiers, 22-year-old Andrei flaunted his luxury apartment and self-deprecating holes that barely fit his body. When the Russians rained bombs and cluster munitions, he used the holes to protect himself during the attack, and when shells were close by, he got down on the ground just in case.

Warning: The corpse of a Russian next to a position of the 35th Ukrainian Marine Brigade, on the southern front in Donetsk.(LUIS DE VEGA/EL PAÍS)