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Kyiv said connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) that it had received from Russia 1,000 remains of radical that Moscow said were Ukrainian soldiers killed warring the Kremlin's army.
The speech of prisoners of warfare and the remains of killed soldiers is 1 of the fewer remaining areas of practice betwixt Kyiv and Moscow, which invaded Ukraine successful February 2022.
"Today, repatriation measures took place, nether which 1,000 bodies of the deceased, which the Russian broadside claims beryllium to Ukrainian defenders, were returned to Ukraine," Kyiv's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said successful a connection connected societal media.
Kremlin adjutant Vladimir Medinsky confirmed an speech had taken place, penning connected Telegram that the Russian broadside had received the remains of 38 killed Russian soldiers.
Mr. Medinsky said the speech was made imaginable arsenic portion of agreements struck betwixt Ukrainian and Russian delegations successful Istanbul earlier past year.
Tens of thousands of soldiers person been killed connected some sides since Russia invaded, though neither broadside regularly publishes information connected their ain casualties.
