Military exchange: Ukraine returns bodies of 757 fallen soldiers
Photo: Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Ukraine has returned the bodies of 757 fallen soldiers through repatriation efforts, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reports.
The fallen soldiers fought in the following directions:
- Kurakhove
- Pokrovsk
- Bakhmut
- Vuhledar
- Luhansk
- Zaporizhzhia
In addition, bodies that had been held in morgues on Russian territory were also taken back to the Ukrainian side.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War expressed gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross for facilitating the return of Ukrainian defenders' remains.
Prisoner exchanges
During the full-scale war between Ukraine and Russia, the process of exchanging the bodies of fallen soldiers continues. This humanitarian exchange is conducted with the participation of forensic experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross and remains one of the few diplomatic channels between the two countries.
Earlier, on January 24, Ukraine also returned the bodies of 757 fallen soldiers, who had fought in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
