Russia Kiev: Have also received bodies of Russian soldiers
According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko in Kiev, Ukraine also received dead Russians during the return of thousands of soldiers' bodies from Russia. In a post on Telegram, however, he did not specify how many such cases there were.
20.06.2025, 05:30
SDA
"The enemy is deliberately making it difficult for us to identify the dead, creating chaos and mixing the bodies of Russian soldiers with those of Ukrainians," the minister wrote. Photos showed the alleged military passport and identification tag of a dead Russian soldier who had been handed over to Ukraine. There was no independent confirmation of this.
Russia has handed over more than 6000 bodies to Ukraine in the past few days. Moscow received more than 50 dead bodies back. This - as well as an exchange of prisoners - was part of humanitarian gestures agreed by both warring parties in Istanbul at the beginning of June. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the first to publicly criticize the fact that Russia was also transferring the bodies of its own soldiers to Ukraine.
