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Picture shot with a phone camera from inside a van in occupied eastern Ukraine (December, 2017). The semitrailer truck ahead with the red cross and number 200 is a (Груз 200/Gruz 200/Cargo 200) Russian truck that exclusively travels between occupied eastern Ukraine and Russia. It's cargo is the bodies of Russians (soldiers/mercenaries) KIA in eastern Ukraine. Cargo 200 is the Russian military designation for such a vehicle. Rumor has it that each Kremlin supplied coffin contains 200 ounces of zinc. A Ukrainian government van painted with red crosses and (Груз 200/Gruz 200/Cargo 200) placards on its windows does the same with Ukrainian military KIA. The Ukrainian bodies/remains are collected by a volunteer group called the Black Tulips. It is very dangerous work due to mines, un-exploded ordnance etc. Since 2014, an estimated 10,000+ have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine.
Above is a test solar farm located in the Chernobyl, Ukraine restricted zone. The restricted zone is approximately the size of Luxembourg. The electrical transmission infrastructure is already in place from when the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant was active. Tests have proven that everything works as intended and it has been proposed to convert the entire Chernobyl restricted zone to tracts of solar-panel farms. Since the rows of solar panels cannot be anchored to posts in the ground (that would stir up too much contaminated dust), they are affixed to concrete railroad ties that simply lay on the ground. The weight is such that nothing moves. Bids for tracts of solar-panel land will be announced during 2018. Investors are impressed with this proposal to generate power from the sun in the contaminated restricted zone that would otherwise remain abandoned/useless for hundreds of years.