Russian soldier 'killed by Ukrainian tank fire' stuns morgue as he climbs out of body bag
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A Russian soldier who was "killed by Ukrainian tank fire" stunned morgue staff by climbing out of his black body bag. Igor Kononenko, 37 has recalled the moment a duty guard promptly fainted, believing he had seen a ghost after they thought he had died. The "resurrected" solider said: “I shook him awake and asked, ‘Buddy, what's wrong?’ He turned even whiter’. I walked down the corridor and met a nurse. Her eyes widened and she said: ‘You're dead!’ As it turned out later, she was the one who took me into the morgue.”.
Kononenko - call sign Katun - struggled to understand what had happened to him. It took him time to “come to my senses” after realising he had been declared dead and put in the morgue in Donetsk. He admitted: “I was furious and scared. How did I end up in the morgue? Who came up with the idea of stuffing me in a body bag? The doctor showed me all the documents and then said that this happens, but rarely. Most likely, it was a clinical death. I was lucky. Afterwards, the emotions subsided a little, but not for long.".
He recalled that he had been under fire from a Ukrainian army in Putin-occupied territory when a tank shell hit the wall of the house where he was hiding. “The blast wave threw me back so much that I broke through two walls with my body,” he said. “I was fortunate that the walls were not brick but clay, soft, so it didn't kill me.”.
Reports say that as he was transported to military hospital his “heart stopped” and doctors “pronounced him dead”. The resurrected soldier said: “The doctor touched me, and I was already cold. “They attached a device to check, but there were no indicators [of life]. I was dead.
