Belarusan hospitals filled with Russian soldiers

Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24th, the Russian Defence Ministry has reported military defeat only once. On March 2nd, she said 498 soldiers were killed and another 1,597 wounded. Ukrainian officials say there were at least 14,200 deaths from the Russian side. Perhaps neither side tells the truth.

But according to Belarusic media reports and channels at Telegram many injured Russian soldiers are being brought to Belarus, where they receive their first medical treatment before being transported to Russia.

Even Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said five days after the start of the war that in the cities of Gomel, Mazyr, and another Belarusian city, about 160 and 170 Russian soldiers were treated.

Young Soldiers From Poor Regions of Russia

Four sources told DW that these southern cities of Belarus had Russian soldiers. They also said that a field hospital was established in Narrovlya, not far from the Ukrainian border. One source told DW that many wounded soldiers who have arrived in Mazyr had lost <x0 ft., legs, ears or eyes”. They said that some had arrived too late and had begun gangrenizing their limbs.

The source said some of the wounded had not eaten for five days, and that when they arrived they were disoriented and wanted to call with their parents: “The word is for soldiers who were born in 2003. They come from poor regions of Russia yesterday are essentially still children. ”

m another source that is not directly involved in the health care sector, but well informed of the situation said that in a hospital in the Gomel region, “is performed without interruptions of” operations, up to 50 per night. The source said that surgeons often have to receive Russian soldiers. “The hospital is full of”, the source said, demanding that the location of the hospital not be made public.

Hospitals under strict control by secret services

Many doctors contacted by the DW refused to talk about the medical treatment of Russian soldiers. Two sources said doctors had to sign an agreement not to speak.

The Belarus Foundation of Medical Solidarity confirmed that all hospitals are under strict control. There are a lot of KGB or FSB employees in hospitals. All hospital buildings are under surveillance. Many Belarusian doctors, thought to have related something about what is happening in hospitals, have been replaced by Russian doctors,”, said a spokesman, adding that many doctors and hospital workers are afraid to talk about what they had seen or done.

Some people told DW that the bodies of the dead Russian soldiers were transported from Ukraine to Belarus. Even the spokesman for the Belarus Foundation of Medical Solidarity said hospitals in Belarus are overloaded, adding that there are many dead soldiers. However, no one could give an exact figure. / DW/