US EditionRussia Hands Over 1,200 Ukrainian Remains as Prisoner Swaps Continue
- On 13 June 2025, Ukraine received approximately 1,200 bodies of deceased soldiers returned from Russia near the Belarus border, in connection with agreements reached during peace talks in Istanbul.
- This exchange followed an Istanbul peace agreement earlier in June, amid prior accusations from Moscow that Kyiv failed to collect previous remains and disputes over the timing of swaps.
- The returned bodies include soldiers who died in various Ukrainian regions and Russia's Kursk area, while both sides also exchanged living prisoners without disclosing exact numbers.
- Russia's negotiator Vladimir Medinsky confirmed the handover and noted Russia received 27 Russian bodies in return, while Ukrainian experts pledged to identify the deceased promptly.
- These repatriations form part of ongoing prisoner swaps and peace efforts, highlighting continued hostilities despite agreements to exchange up to 6,000 dead and wounded soldiers each side.
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Moscow Mixing Up Body Parts And Sending Russian Remains_ Complicating Identification Of War Dead_ Ukraine Charges
Russia is purposefully making it more difficult for Ukraine to identify repatriated remains by sending badly mutilated bodies and mixing up body parts, complicating the already grim and painstaking task of matching names to the remains of those killed in
Russia has handed over the bodies of its own soldiers mixed with those of Ukrainian soldiers during the recent repatriation of those who fell into the war, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko, reported the publication The Kyiv...
According to Russia, Ukraine has again received corpses of killed soldiers.
Ukrainian Interior Minister: Russia deliberately complicating process of identifying bodies of the dead
The Russian Federation is deliberately complicating the process of identifying the bodies of the dead by returning them in a mutilated state, and during the latest repatriations, the bodies of Russian soldiers were also handed over to Ukraine - mixed with the bodies of Ukrainians, said head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko.
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