Russia and Ukraine exchanged the bodies of 950 fallen soldiers, officials from both nations announced Friday, marking the second such swap in less than a month.Russia got the remains of 41 soldiers, State Duma lawmaker Shamsail Saraliyev told the RBC news site.
Ukraine, meanwhile, repatriated the bodies of 909 servicemen, according to the governments Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.The Ukrainian soldiers were supposedly eliminated on the cutting edge in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv areas, as well as in the northeastern Sumy region, where Ukraine claims Russian forces are preparing a new offensive.Exchanges of war detainees and fallen servicemen stay among the couple of continuous locations of cooperation between the 2 warring countries because Russia introduced its full-scale intrusion of Ukraine more than 3 years ago.Fridays swap follows a March 28 exchange of 909 Ukrainian soldiers bodies for 43 Russian soldiers bodies.
It is the 8th exchange involving the remains of 500 or more Ukrainian soldiers given that October.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CBS News on Sunday that as much as 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had actually been killed considering that February 2022.
Russia has not upgraded its main casualty count since the fall of 2022, when it acknowledged fewer than 6,000 battle deaths.An independent count by Mediazona and BBC News Russia has recognized the names of around 100,000 dead Russian soldiers based on publicly readily available information.AFP contributed reporting.