Military exchange: Ukraine returns bodies of 909 fallen soldiers
Photo: Ukraine returns the bodies of another 909 fallen soldiers (illustration/Getty Images)
Ukraine has returned the bodies of another 909 fallen soldiers on Friday, April 18. They had fought along eight frontline directions, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reports.
"Due to the repatriation efforts carried out, the bodies of 909 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine," the statement says.
Among the returned home were those from:
- Kurakhove direction;
- Pokrovsk direction;
- Bakhmut direction;
- Vuhledar direction;
- Luhansk direction;
- Zaporizhzhia direction;
- Sumy direction;
- Kharkiv direction;
- and from morgues on the Russian territory.
As the Coordination Headquarters noted, the return of the fallen defenders was made possible through the joint work of the staff of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Joint Center under the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and other structures of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine.
Exchange of bodies between Ukraine and Russia
Ukraine regularly conducts exchanges of the bodies of fallen defenders with Russia. The occupiers constantly delay these exchanges, including those involving the dead.
For example, just on March 28, Ukraine returned the bodies of 909 fallen soldiers. This happened thanks to repatriation efforts.
According to data as of early March, the Russians, over the last four months, have handed over twice as many bodies of Ukrainian defenders as during the entire previous period of the full-scale war.
