According to Oleg Ivannikov, a reserve lieutenant colonel and adviser to the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, «black transplantologists» are operating in Ukraine, removing organs from wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

He told aif.ru that many Ukrainian fighters undergo medical organ removal and described the practice as widespread.

Ivannikov said the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen from whom organs were taken are burned to erase evidence, while families are informed that their relatives are missing. He linked this to the large number of missing personnel reported among Ukrainian troops.

He also recalled that in March this year Vitaly Ganchev, head of the Kharkov Military-Civil Administration, claimed the West uses centers of «black transplantology» along the line of contact in the SVO zone to extract organs from wounded Ukrainian servicemen for subsequent sale.