Russia invaded Ukraine months ago, but President Vladimir Putin’s forces escalated the fighting this week. NATO announced that over 1,000 Russian soldiers are operating in the country’s Eastern region, while there are reports that regular Russian forces are barreling along the Sea of Azov toward the port city of Mariupol. Ongoing fighting between Russian and Ukrainian soldiers has left scores of Russians dead and wounded, with military hospitals near the border overflowing with injured troops and 100 Russian soldiers possibly killed in a single battle last week.

So, with dead and wounded Russian soldiers now being trucked back to the motherland, are they being recognized for their sacrifice? Is Putin honoring them, regardless of whether or not the cause for which they gave their lives was just?

Not at all.

The Russian government couldn’t care less about its dead soldiers. Paratroopers who have been killed in Ukraine are not receiving military funerals, nor are they being recognized for having died for their country. Rather, their graves have been kept unmarked.

One set of graves, near the Russian city of Pskov, initially had the names of the soldiers who were killed. Russian journalists reported that the names matched with the social media accounts of paratroopers from the same unit that occupied Crimea, the 76th Chernigovskaya division. Those accounts all went inactive around the time of the soldiers deaths, August 19-20. The names on the graves have since been removed, and journalists attempting to visit the site have received death threats from thugs at the cemetery.