Ukraine says Russia returned 1,000 bodies

Russia connected Thursday returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine, which Moscow said were the remains of Kyiv’s soldiers killed successful battle, a Ukrainian authorities bureau said.

Moscow aboriginal confirmed the exchange, saying it had received 31 bodies from Kyiv.

The speech of prisoners of warfare and the remains of dormant soldiers is 1 of the fewer remaining areas of practice betwixt Kyiv and Moscow, which invaded Ukraine successful February 2022.

“Repatriation measures took spot today,” Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announced connected societal media.

“One 1000 bodies, which according to the Russian broadside beryllium to Ukrainian servicemen, were returned to Ukraine,” the bureau added.

Ukraine has said that Moscow handed implicit to Kyiv the bodies of Russian soldiers during erstwhile repatriations.

Kyiv besides announced successful September, August and July that it had received the remains of 1,000 soldiers from Russia, illustrating the strength of warring crossed the sprawling beforehand line.

The Coordination Headquarters said instrumentality enforcement would soon statesman the process of identifying the repatriated remains. It thanked the International Committee of the Red Cross for its relation successful the repatriation.

Tens of thousands of soldiers person been killed connected some sides since Russia invaded, though neither broadside regularly publishes information connected their ain casualties.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky successful February this twelvemonth told US media that Ukraine has mislaid much than 46,000 soldiers and that tens of thousands were considered missing successful action.

The BBC and autarkic outlet Mediazona accidental they person documented much than 135,000 Russian soldiers killed successful the three-and-a-half-year campaign, utilizing open-source data. They accidental the existent fig apt higher.

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