US EditionWar in Ukraine: Zelensky Accuses Moscow of Having Handed over Bodies of Russian Troops to Kiev Instead of Ukrainian Soldiers
- On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv received 20 Russian soldiers' bodies instead of Ukrainian ones during war dead exchanges with Moscow.
- The exchanges followed agreements between Ukraine and Russia reached during two rounds of talks in Istanbul earlier this month to swap 6,000 bodies each.
- Zelensky accused Russia of 'not checking' the bodies sent and suggested Moscow might deliberately conflate numbers to obscure losses, while Russia denies errors.
- Ukraine's General Staff reported over 1,010,000 Russian casualties including killed and wounded, and Zelensky noted Putin fears admitting true losses to the Russian public.
- These developments highlight the conflict's heavy toll and coincide with Ukraine's request for 0.25 percent of partner GDP to support its domestic defense production.
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A few days ago there was an exchange of bodies of dead soldiers between Ukraine and Russia.More than 6,000 corpses from each side returned to their homelands in an exchange supervised by the Red Cross. But the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has revealed that among the bodies they have received, at least 20 are from Russian soldiers. "During the repatriations, it has already been confirmed that the bodies of 20 people who were handed o…
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On top of a hill in the Ukrainian province of Donetsk lie seven Russian soldiers. Three are burned and four are decaying. Worms come out of the skull cavities, flies cover them completely. The rotten smell is unbreathable, but the wind manages to take it to the fields stretching from the mound. Oleksi Yukov, military and exhumer of corpses, is satisfied because among the ashes of one of the bodies there are fragments of the spine, where DNA can …
Russia returned 20 bodies of its own fallen soldiers, 1 foreign mercenary, claims Ukraine's Zelenskyy
'This lie is documented; some of the bodies even had Russian passports,' Ukrainian president says but does not specify location or timing of fallen soldiers' swap - Anadolu Ajansı
Russia has sent to Ukraine at least 20 of its soldiers who have died in recent Ukrainian exchanges and has added that this is the result of the disorganization of Moscow in the wake of the major exchanges of wounded and left war prisoners, announced Volodimir Zelenski. Among the deaths received from Ukraine is an Israeli citizen.
Among these 20 bodies, "there is, for example, an Israeli mercenary fighting on their side, an Israeli citizen, with Israeli papers," said the Ukrainian president on Saturday.
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