Eerie footage shows dozens of wooden coffins being unloaded in the world’s coldest city, Yakeutsk, in Siberia, in the same plane that is used to carry new soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin
Russian plane delivers coffins of dead soldiers from Ukraine to Yakutsk
This is the chilling moment Vladimir Putin’s “death plane” is seen delivering 50 coffins of Russian soliders killed in the Ukraine war as they return home to their relatives.
The Il-76 aircraft was seen delivering the bodies to the world’s coldest city, Yakutsk, in Siberia. It is also used to carry dozens of new soldiers to fight in Putin’s killing fields, according to witnesses. The eerie footage was recorded by a mobilised soldier – one of those who boarded this plane as he was sent back to war, despite being wounded.
It takes place at the city’s airport deep in the night, so the unloading of wooden coffins into three trucks on the snow-caked tarmac in minus 30C is invisible to Putin’s people. Highlighting the footage, the FreeYakutia Foundation stated: “The [Russian] state continues its endless cycle. It takes lives, throws people into the meat grinder of war, and so on, in a circle. “The conveyor belt of death works smoothly.” Commentary on the video says: “****, they brought the 200s [slang for Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine].
“They brought the men. They’re loading the second truck. The third truck is getting ready. Three trucks of 200s….“****ing hell. We’ll go when they finish.” The FreeYakutia Foundation stated: “That’s how it is — the dead are unloaded, the living are loaded. Some were brought in boxes [coffins] with the seal ‘Cargo 200’ [war dead], others are sent on the same route.” Yakutsk is 3,500 miles as the crow flies from the war zone. Many “will return the same way”, said the man who was among the soldiers being sent to replenish the dead, despite the prospect of talks to end the war as demanded by Donald Trump.
It comes as South Korea’s military fears North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Rusia after its soldiers fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war suffered heavy casualties. North Korea has been supplying a vast amount of artillery and other conventional weapons to Russia, and last October it sent about 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia as well, according to U.S., South Korean and Ukraine intelligences. Seoul, Washington and others worry Russia could in return transfer to North Korea sophisticated weapons technologies that can enhance its nuclear program.
North Korean soldiers are considered to be highly disciplined and well-trained, but their lack of combat experiences and unfamiliarity with the largely flat plains that make up most battlefields in the Russian-Ukraine war have made them easy targets for drone and artillery strikes. South Korea’s spy agency said last week that it assessed about 300 North Korean soldiers had died and another 2,700 had been injured. Earlier in January, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put the number of killed or wounded North Koreans at 4,000, though U.S. estimates were lower at around 1,200.
