Military exchange: Ukraine returns bodies of 909 fallen defenders
Illustrative photo: The bodies of 909 fallen defenders were returned to Ukraine (Getty Images)
Ukraine has returned the bodies of 909 fallen soldiers through repatriation efforts, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reports.
The fallen soldiers fought in:
- The Kurakhove direction
- The Pokrovsk direction
- The Bakhmut direction
- The Vuhledar direction
- The Luhansk direction
- The Zaporizhzhia direction
In addition, bodies that had been held in Russian morgues were handed over 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 its assistance in the return of Ukrainian defenders' remains.
Exchange of bodies between Russia and Ukraine
Ukraine and Russia regularly conduct exchanges of fallen soldiers' remains. These exchanges take place with the involvement of forensic medical experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross and remain one of the few diplomatic channels between the two countries.
According to the Commissioner for Missing Persons in Special Circumstances, Artur Dobroserdov, in the past four months, the Russian side has transferred twice as many bodies as it did throughout the entire period of the full-scale war.
