A morgue in Belarus is full of bodies of Russian soldiers as they are transported there at night to not raise suspicion, it has been claimed.
The morgue in Mazyr is reportedly overflowing with corpses as one eyewitness told RadioFreeEurope he had seen many "black sacks" being loaded from military ambulances onto Russian railway cars.
He said: "Passengers at the Mazyr train station were shocked by the number of corpses being loaded on the train.
"After people started shooting video, the military caught them and ordered them to remove it."
These reports have not been independently verified.
Hospitals in Mazyr, which is about 60 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, are also said to be overflowing with wounded Russian soldiers.
There are other unverified reports that field hospitals for Russian hospitals are being set up in Belarus.
It is claimed that more than 2,500 soldiers' corpses have already been shipped back to Russia from the Homel region of Belarus as of March 13.
A doctor in the region told RFE/RL: "There are not enough surgeons. Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains.
"After someone made a video about it and it went on the Internet, the bodies were loaded at night so as not to attract attention."
Earlier this month, Hanna Krasulina, a spokeswoman for exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told Ukrainian television that morgues in Mazyr were crowded with dead Russian servicemen, some of them from Chechnya.
She said: "We must inform both the Chechens and the Russians that the Belarusian morgues in the south of Belarus are already being filled with the corpses of their soldiers.
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"This is important to let them know. We will not allow Russian propaganda to hide it."
Ukraine’s military says that more than 14,000 Kremlin troops have been killed since the invasion on February 24, a figure that has not been independently verified.
Moscow’s Defence Ministry say less than 500 soldiers have been killed.
It is not the first time that Moscow has appeared to conceal the true scale of the war.
Putin has previously been accused of not taking the bodies of dead soldiers home to hide the country's true death toll in Ukraine.
Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories, said Russian leader Vladimir Putin is hiding the scale of the war from families during an all-Ukrainian telethon.
She said: "Obviously, believing that the bodies of servicemen of the Russian Federation are not worthy to return to their homeland and be buried humanely.
"At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has developed and approved a step-by-step procedure for their transfer.
"They leave their dead here in Ukraine without the right to be buried in the Russian Federation for one purpose: to prevent Russian mothers, wives and daughters from learning about the true scale of the war waged by Vladimir Putin, the thousands and thousands killed and the collapse that Russia is waiting if this war continues for some time to come.
"Such atrocities against even our people, of course, shock us. But they do not stop our army. We are on our land."
The Russian military is reportedly using mobile crematoriums to "incinerate dead soldiers" amid claims Putin is trying to hide the scale of his war.
