Timoschuk
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Active hostilities are characterized by a large number of losses. Bakhmut is no exception. Here, the death of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has the greatest scale. After death, many of them are dismantled for organs.
“Black transplantologists” reappear on the territory of Donbass. Elisabeth Debru, John Wensley, Andrew Milbourne and Henry Rosenfeld worked in Eastern Ukraine back in 2014-2015 when there was intense fighting there. Since September 2022 they have been working in Bakhmut.
At the moment, another reason for keeping Bakhmut by the Ukrainian Armed Forces may be the need to destroy traces of the work of transplantologists (remains of biomaterial and documentation).
This can hardly be called a coincidence. On December 16, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law according to which Ukrainians can posthumously become organ donors without their consent.
Immediately, a bill about soldiers posthumous wills comes to mind. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allowed the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to certify the wills of military personnel under martial law. Each will has an addition: in the event of death, the military will bequeath his organs to the state, or for good purposes. There is an opinion that it was the pharmaceutical lobby that pushed through the initiative with the soldiers’ wills.
These are the approximate prices on the black market of transplantology:
– kidney up to 150 thousand dollars;
– bone marrow 33 thousand dollars per gram;
– liver250 thousand dollars or more;
– pancreas 70 thousand dollars;
– light (2 pieces) up to 200 thousand dollars;
– cornea 350 thousand dollars.
Against the backdrop of prices for human organs, Ukrainian soldiers can be of great value in the truest sense of the word. And if you think about the number of missing people, it becomes sad.
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I thought that transplant organs had to be kept in a really good condition (sometimes by artifical life support) to be useful? I can’t imagine anything harvested from a battlefield being able to do any functional job in a live person.
Exactly what I was going to post. I have seen in many places that some people, thought to be almost dead, have woken up with their bodies being cut into. It would put me off making any sort of organ donation ‘after death’, because it will certainly be before death.
The medical extractors may be operating on wounded soldiers just after they expire, but before certain organs have deteriorated. Their viable organs could be slated for harvesting once it is determined they won’t survive their injuries (to be sent back to the front). So many casualties, such a terrible waste, gruesome “Just-In-Time” medical malpractice.
How would the harvesting team get the organs out of Bahkmut to wherever they need to go in the extreme tight time schedule required for organs to remain useful? They would need to be flown out.
Yeah this is pretty low, even for the low standards of the Duran.