Ukraine said Sunday that he had received another transfer of 1,200 bodies of Russia as part of an exchange agreement reached in the Istanbul conversations earlier this month.
“Other 1,200 bodies that the Russian side affirms belongs to Ukrainian citizens, including military personnel, were returned to Ukraine,” wrote kyiv’s headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war on social networks.
“In total, 4,812 bodies have been returned this week,” said Ukraine Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, on Facebook. “I am grateful to all those involved in this humanitarian mission,” he said.
Ukraine has not said if he has transferred any body to the Russian side.
The two parties agreed a large -scale exchange of prisoners and bodies of dead soldiers during their last round of direct conversations in Istanbul on June 2.
Both Russia and Ukraine generally do not reveal their military losses.
In a rare public estimate, President Volodymyr Zelensky told us to the media NBC Earlier this year, more than 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and about 380,000 injured.
Russia has not announced its military deaths since September 2022, when he said that less than 6,000 soldiers had been killed, a figure that is believed to be much lower than reality.
Several independent investigations that use open sources, such as the publication of death ads by local and family officials, have reported massive death tolls for the Moscow Army.
The Russian website Mediazone and the BBC The Russian service said they had identified the names of about 111,000 dead Russian soldiers.
