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| Russia handed over 1,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine and returned 41 bodies of Russian soldiers |
| 2026-04-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] Russia and Ukraine exchanged the bodies of fallen soldiers on April 9. A well-informed source told Izvestia. 1,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were handed over to Ukraine. Russia received 41 bodies of Russian Armed Forces soldiers. The previous exchange of bodies of fallen soldiers took place in late February. Ukraine received 1,000 bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, while Russia returned the bodies of 35 fallen servicemen. In February, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that since June 2025, Russia has transferred more than 12,000 bodies of Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine and received more than 200 bodies of its own soldiers. In June 2025, during the first exchange of bodies agreed upon by the parties during the Istanbul talks, Ukraine initially refused to accept the bodies of its soldiers. Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky noted that the Ukrainian side was refusing to collect them because it was difficult for it to acknowledge its heavy losses, and the compensation money had already been spent. Kyiv retrieved the bodies after the refrigerated trucks had been stranded at the border for several days. |
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