Accepting the 6,000 bodies Moscow is returning would mean paying out compensations, leaving less money to send new recruits to the slaughter As refrigerated trucks sit idling on the Russian side of the border, carrying the bodies of over a thousand Ukrainian soldiers – the first batch of the 6,000 Russia has offered to return – Kiev remains silent. No Ukrainian officials have shown up. No representatives have been dispatched to accept the remains. No families have been informed of the long-