Volodymyr Liamzin, head of Ukraine's civil-military cooperation, told reporters last month the Russians promote 'this fairy tale that they don't leave their men behind. Russia's military has claimed just over 1,300 of its soldiers were killed in the conflict as of late March, but it hasn't updated the death toll - and Western officials believe that's a serious undercount. Ukraine accuses Russia of refusing to acknowledge the true scale of its war dead. Ukraine and Russia have exchanged the remains of only about 200 troops from each side in recent weeks, according to Ukraine's government. Ukrainian officials wouldn't specify how many Russian corpses sit unclaimed in overcrowded morgues and refrigerated railway cars. And it brought into focus the problem of what to do with those bodies, of which Ukrainian officials say thousands have been collected from liberated areas around the country, most recently in the Kharkiv region. That the authorities forgot a corpse, and that this corpse was an enemy soldier, set off a range of emotions in Moshchun, from anger to amusement to a sliver of sympathy.

'He was right where we last saw him,' Yuriy says, 'many weeks before. 'But they didn't even notice him' - a dead Russian soldier lying near the wild plum trees. 'The local mayor told us the village had been inspected, and all the dead had been buried,' Yuriy says. Russian forces had retreated, Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors had come and gone, funerals had been held.

MOSHCHUN, Ukraine - When retired electrical engineers Yuriy Tostopalov and Natalya Tostopalova recently returned to their war-razed village near Kyiv, they assumed all the dead bodies would be gone. Editor's note: Some of the images in this story have graphic content.

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