Kiev, Mar. 28, (dpa/GNA) – Ukraine has received the remains of more than 900 soldiers killed in combat, authorities said on Friday.
The 909 soldiers were killed in fighting in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya regions in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian agency responsible for prisoners of war said in Kiev.
Some of the corpses were from mortuaries on Russian territory, the body said.
The exchange was organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
According to Russian media reports, Moscow received the bodies of 35 soldiers and eight Russian civilians from the Kursk border region in return.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for more than three years.
Kiev has received some 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies in exchanges with Moscow, while Russia is believed to have received fewer due to its advances along the front since the autumn of 2023.
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