A shocking video shows how the dead and wounded from Vladimir Putin’s war dead are moved by helicopter to annexed Crimea - as tourists swim in the sea.
The summer playground peninsula has become a key route for Russia as the Kremlin tries to hide the scale of its war losses from its own people.
The footage shows three ambulances waiting for the latest two helicopter flights back from the front in the Kherson region.
Meanwhile tourists splash in the Black Sea seemingly untroubled as the victims of Putin’s war are flown to a military base close to their beach.
Reports say Crimea is being used increasingly to hospitalise the war wounded as the Kremlin's boys are pummelled during Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Numbers are so high that locals cannot get treatment in the annexed territory’s clinics, it has been reported.
Russia routinely seeks to hide the toll of dead and maimed soldier from its people.
“It is difficult for me to talk about the nature of the diseases or injuries that Russian servicemen receive,” said Refat Chubarov, a senior figure in the Crimean Tatar community.
“But the fact is that almost all the moderately or seriously wounded are evacuated to Crimea, and not only local military but also civilian hospitals.”
The dead - known as Cargo 200 - are moved here too alongside the wounded, Cargo 300.
The trend may indicate Russia expects to be pushed back from Kherson region by the Ukrainian advance.
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