During the Russo-Ukrainian War, a dead Russian soldier lay on the road in Irpin, a town near the Ukrainian capital Kiev, on 1 March 2022, while Ukrainian residents walked beside him carrying water.

　　 Bodies of dead Russian soldiers lie on a road in Irpin (Irpin), a town near the Ukrainian capital Kiev, on 1 March 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukrainian residents carrying water walked next to the corpses of Russian soldiers scattered on Ukrainian streets. Morgues in various cities were overflowing with the corpses of Russian soldiers. The Ukrainian Government posted photos of dead Russian soldiers online on 2 March 2022.

　Ukrainian authorities published photos of gruesome corpses of Russian soldiers online to counter censorship by Russian Kremlin authorities. As the fighting continued to escalate, the photographic images were posted on various Telegram channels run by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Security. The grisly photographs showed the mutilated corpses of Russian soldiers lying in a field, their muscles and organs side by side. Russian soldiers in camouflage uniforms lay frozen in the snow beside bombed-out Russian tanks and vehicles. The charred and bloodied remains of dead troop soldiers lay by the roadside.

　Days after the full-scale offensive began on 22 February 2022, the Russian military would not reveal how many of its own soldiers had been killed or taken prisoner. Russian military authorities stated that there had been some losses, but that the number was far less than the losses suffered by Ukrainian forces. The Russian Defence Ministry has reported the number of Russian servicemen killed only once since the beginning of the war: on 2 March, the Ministry announced that 498 Russian soldiers had been killed and 1,597 wounded in Ukraine.

Warning: Bodies of dead Russian soldiers lie on a road in the town of Irpin near Kiev, 1 March 2022.(Profimedia.cz)