Why so much broken hardware but few dead bodies

One example is all the images of knocked out armored vehicles, particularly the various tanks.

As discussed in another thread, the tanks in use in this fight have a peculiar design flaw: any penetrating damage that ignites the tank’s stored ammunition or its propellant will result in a cataclysmic interior fire that the crew has less than a few seconds to escape or be reduced to ash and distributed to the wind by the turret popping off the tank like an explosive jack-in-the-box.

So don’t expect to see remains in that case, unless you can distinguish one ash pile from another.