Russia and Ukraine Conduct Exchange of Fallen Soldiers Bodies

Russia and Ukraine Conduct Exchange of Fallen Soldiers Bodies

Ukraine has confirmed the handover of around 1,000 bodies of its soldiers from Russia, while returning 19 Russian soldiers remains as part of a recent exchange agreement.

According to Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the exchange followed understandings reached during peace talks in Istanbul earlier this year.

 The fallen soldiers were reported to have died in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions of southeastern Ukraine, as well as Russia’s border region of Kursk, which briefly came under Ukrainian control during an incursion last August.