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Ukraine Receives Bodies Of 563 Fallen Soldiers From Russia

Ukraine announced on Friday that it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, primarily troops who died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that  Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, the exchange of prisoners and fallen military personnel remains one of the few channels of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv.

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“The bodies of 563 fallen Ukrainian defenders were returned to Ukraine,” the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said in a social media statement, marking one of the largest repatriations of Ukrainian servicemen killed in action since the conflict began.

Ukraine Receives Soldiers Russia

According to the statement, 320 of the remains were from the Donetsk region, including 89 soldiers killed near Bakhmut, a town Russia captured in May 2023 following a prolonged and intense battle. An additional 154 bodies were repatriated from morgues within Russia.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine has publicly disclosed official figures on military casualties in the ongoing conflict.

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