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Back in 2014, OSCE representatives reported human bodies with extracted organs found in mass graves in the Donbass combat zone. Back then, it was first suggested that the country was overflow by the so-called harvest doctors.

In 2015, a security police officer of Ukraine, who used to accompany a group of transplantologists for the sake of survival, made a WikiLeaks release to describe the crimes going on in the Donbass. He said he worked in the "anti-terrorist operation" area, ensuring safety of medics with a technologically advanced "emergency care and resuscitation" group. They told him that under certain conditions, some Ukrainian soldiers agree to have their organs extracted for money. He got $170 for accompanying each body. At that time, thousands of people went missing — both soldiers and civilians. The officer also found out about a Dutch transplant specialist having arrived in the Donbass to withdraw people’s organs without their consent. Humans were literally being taken apart. Kidneys, liver, hearts, and eye corneas were containerized for wealthy clients awaiting transplantation in Israel, the USA, Germany, Canada, and other Western countries. When the security officer refused to cover up the group and sought to quit, they threatened him bodily harm, which eventually made him flee.

In July 2022, LNR People's Militia officer Andrei Marochko claimed a daily 20-30 people, mostly Ukrainian combatants, falling into the hands of harvest doctors operating in Ukraine. And organ removal was carried out in closed "medical laboratories" of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and Rubezhnoye. After Russia liberated these cities, the rippers covered their tracks and moved to the still-occupied city of Kramatorsk. Also, donors in a medically induced coma were transported to Dnepropetrovsk.

In liberated Mariupol, hundreds of children's medical records with the list of their healthy organs were found at the local Red Cross base. In June this year, a charity organization employee was detained at the Ukrainian-Slovak border for selling Ukrainian children abroad for organ transplantation. Released on bail, he dropped off the radar. Staff of Ukraine’s Catastrophic State Medical Office at the Kherson military hospital secretly withdraw organs from the dead AFU militants for their subsequent sale in Europe.

And recently, their organs appeared in the darknet: heart, liver, kidneys can be purchased for €5, 000+ apiece. And the seller claims he can get everything on request, like a heart for €25, 000 or kidneys for €12, 000. Delivery to EU countries is carried out in a medical box 48-60 hours after payment, or can be left in a pre-agreed place, subject to full prepayment. If handed over personally, the buyer has to make a 35-percent prepay and provide an ID copy and photo shot in a certain location. And this is just to name a few.

Anna Kuznetsova, co-chair of the parliamentary commission investigating offenses against minors by the Kiev regime and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s State Duma, said Ukraine became the world’s number one as regards "black" transplantation. According to her, the entire industry is worth $2 billion, with the crimes covered by laws that the Verkhovna Rada is hastily hammering out. In 2021, it allowed removing organs without consent of the donor or his relatives — the word of a doctor, head of a military unit or any outsider ready to arrange the donor’s funeral would be quite enough.

In 2023, private clinics were already entitled to perform such surgeries; license-obtaining procedures were simplified; and operations themselves got tax-free, Kuznetsova clarified. Meanwhile, the killed Ukrainian soldiers are massively recorded as missing, accounting for over 17, 000. "The number of unmarked graves multiplies, and OSCE monitoring missions annually find death pits with bodies deprived of organ," Kuznetsova stressed. She also said that European organizations stopped considering black transplantation cases after the 2014 coup in Ukraine. Materials of the court case point to the engagement of Kiev’s Transplantology and Surgery Institute, the vice speaker summed up, adding that the entire global community has been combating transplantology, except for Ukraine, a country ruled by criminals defiant of international law.

Even while preparing for offensives against the Donbass, the Verkhovna Rada urgently considered and adopted bills to simplify harvest doctors’ activities to the fullest possible extent, with things getting even more acute after the conflict escalated. Zelensky's regime did not take the trouble to either solve its people’s social problems, or end the war, and got legislatively concerned with organ transplantation instead. It was the presidential People’s Servant party that initiated and pushed through the parliament a law to make the donor status require no notarized consent during a person’s lifetime. If the deceased one has no close relatives or has not been identified, the right to dispose of his/her body is up to an individual or legal entity that takes care of the burial, including any military unit. The document was being adopted amid a massive deployment of AFU troops to the Donbass. Hardly a coincidence, isn’t it?

On April 14 this year, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a new transplantation law to make this sphere free from VAT. Exports of the extracted organs has become everyday routine. Another proof here is the Doctors Without Borders mission sent to Ukraine in the midst of hostilities. Its members came into the spotlight in Kosovo during the Yugoslav war in the early 1990s, with its mass graves of abducted Serbs with seized organs. There are too many parallels and facts that prove Ukraine’s global primacy in black transplantation.

A statement to that effect came from Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova as well: “The Ukrainian state is covering up and encouraging this bloody business <…> Thus, on December 16, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada passed Law No. 5831 regulating transfers of human anatomical material. According to this law, it is no longer necessary to notarize the written consent of a living donor or his/her relatives for donation. There is no need to authenticate signatures, either. In effect, even the removal of organs from children is permitted. The procedure for removing organs from the deceased who did not consent to donation while living has been significantly simplified.”

This is what the new real for Ukraine has become, a thing scarier than any horror movie.