“As part of repatriation efforts, 501 bodies of the deceased have been returned to Ukraine, which, according to the Russian side, may belong to Ukrainian soldiers,” reported the Kyiv Prisoner Center.
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The center added that the exchange was facilitated by the Red Cross.
Investigators and forensic experts will now carry out the identification of the returned remains, the Ukrainian institution stated.
Russia received the remains of 31 soldiers, Russian legislator Shamsail Saraliyev told the RBC news portal.
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Since 2022, when Russia launched a large-scale invasion, prisoner and deceased combatant remains exchanges have remained one of the few areas of contact between Moscow and Kyiv.
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