The boxes from the coffins were likely used to line the annex of the morgue in Tuva, where relatives receive the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Last week, the Telegram channel “New Tyva” опубликовал A video from the republic's morgue shows people waiting for several hours in an unheated outbuilding for bodies to be released (in January, temperatures in the region drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius).
Apparently, after this, the authorities decided to rectify the situation and used the coffin boxes in which the dead are brought home to "insulate" the premises. These photos posted A user of the Telegram channel "What's going on in Tuva again." A little earlier, another user clarifiedThe situation of waiting for bodies in the cold has been going on since the very beginning of the war, and in 2023, relatives of the deceased had to wait for a military plane with coffins in -60 degree weather.
"Social workers have been unable to resolve this issue for four years," - he noted.
Only after the news was picked up by local media, the head of the republic Vladislav Khovalyg instructed Install heaters and space heaters in the annex. He also suggested providing buses so people could wait in a warm place.
The People of Baikal Project Recalls, that an unheated extension to the Kyzyl morgue building was erected last summer - after one of the relatives on the waiting list got sick due to the heat. Previously, the facility had no benches or restrooms for visitors.
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