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The morgue is one of the busiest sites in Ukrainian society with the flow of bodies from the frontlines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The personnel of this field site have expertise in identifying unknown soldiers that arrive with no documents on them, often in a state of decomposition that makes it impossible to recognize a person. Most of the forensic experts working there have been relocated to Dnipro in 2022 from the occupied territories––Kherson, Donetsk and Donbas. The war has been their daily routine long before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, as they faced it up close in the East in 2014. This makes them both victims of the war as internal refugees and those who document it as experts. How do they form a collective that partially makes the war and loss intelligible? How do the agency of the dead body that speaks and the forensic expert that witnesses co-produce evidence of the war crimes committed by the Russian Armed Forces?