US EditionRussia Hands Over 1,200 Ukrainian Remains as Prisoner Swaps Continue
UKRAINE, JUN 16 – Russia returned 1,200 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers as part of a humanitarian agreement, bringing total returns to over 6,000 amid ongoing conflict and identification challenges.
- Ukraine and Russia conducted their fourth prisoner exchange in a week on Saturday, involving soldiers and the return of 1,200 deceased bodies to Ukraine.
- This exchange stems from an agreement reached earlier this month in Istanbul to return more than 6,000 dead soldiers each and swap prisoners of war.
- The returned bodies include soldiers who died in fighting across Ukrainian regions such as Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, while Russia also received 27 Russian bodies in return.
- Russia's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky confirmed the handover and said bodies had been stored in refrigerated trucks since Saturday, while Ukraine accused Russia of manipulating facts and playing dirty tricks.
- The exchanges represent the only tangible results from peace talks but occur amid Russian rejection of ceasefire calls and continued military offensives along the front lines.
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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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