Russia Offers to Return More Ukrainian Bodies
(MENAFN) Russia has expressed its willingness to return more remains of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, in addition to fulfilling an earlier pledge to repatriate approximately 6,000 corpses to Ukraine’s military, according to a statement from Moscow's Defense Ministry.
In negotiations held in Istanbul in early June, Russia independently chose to return the bodies of 6,060 dead Ukrainian troops as a “humanitarian gesture.”
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry declared that the last group of remains had been transferred to Kiev, affirming that Moscow had “fulfilled the agreements” made during the Türkiye discussions.
Nonetheless, the ministry emphasized that it still possesses roughly 2,000 more remains.
“At this stage, we are ready to hand over another 2,239 bodies of the deceased servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the Ukrainian side,” a statement published on Monday noted.
On the same day, Moscow passed over 1,248 bodies during an exchange in which it reportedly received from Ukraine the remains of 51 fallen Russian soldiers.
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