The Guardian joins members of the Black Tulip group as they carry out their grim task in a deserted village
In a deserted village in northern Donetsk, a group of volunteers set about the grim task of extracting two rotted Russian corpses from a cellar next to a destroyed house.
“The mines are dropped from rockets and so they can be anywhere. They can even be caught in trees and blow off in the wind,” said one volunteer, Artur, who was piloting a donated drone to document the bodies’ recovery. Oleksiy Yukov, the head of Black Tulip, works to extract the Russian corpses from a cellar in Krasnopillia.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had taken part in several operations. “Through this work, we have managed to bring back hundreds of fallen soldiers, who can then be identified and eventually returned to their families for burial,” said an ICRC spokesperson in Ukraine, Achille Després.
“It looked like WWII. We also once found Soviet soldiers in a big hole – there were 10-15 people – you could tell they had been intentionally burnt,” said Yukov, describing some of his work before 2014.
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