On January 28, 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the bodies of Russian soldiers were left lying around the trenches on the front line near Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

 　On January 28, 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the bodies of Russian soldiers were left around the trenches on the front line near Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The tragic corpses of Russian soldiers who had been thawed out on the front line began to emerge. In particular, the corpses of Russian prisoners who had not been trained by the Wagner mercenary group were left on the front line. As winter ended and the ground thawed, disturbing corpses were beginning to be revealed on the front line.

　　The Russian army, mainly represented by the Wagner PMC, has repeatedly occupied the Ukrainian fortress region of Bakhmut, which has been an important transport hub in Donbass since July 2022 and covers the route of attack to Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Torez, and Siversk. The route to Siversk covers the routes to Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Tretyak and Siversk. The town of Siversk, like other settlements in this direction, was within the range of Russian artillery fire. Agence France-Presse published a photograph of the bodies of Russian soldiers who had died around the trenches of the front line near Siversk, taken on January 28.

　　Russia has subjected the Ukrainian army to a barrage of hand-to-hand combat by hordes of prisoners of war and poorly trained conscripts in order to expose the defenders of Ukraine. The bodies were left by the Russian army like sacrifices. The Russian army, which was busy with combat, did not return most of the Russian soldiers in coffins to their homeland of Russia. The bodies of Russian soldiers were left lying around, piled up, cremated in mobile crematoriums and makeshift furnaces, hastily buried, or left to rot or freeze in the winter. The Russian army's losses began to approach 180,000 dead and wounded. The losses of the Ukrainian army were not as great as those of the Russian army, and estimates suggest that the Ukrainian army lost around 100,000 soldiers and 30,000 civilians.