Ukraine says it received 1,000 bodies of ‘fallen servicemen’ from Russia

Ukraine received 1,000 bodies of what Russia says are fallen Ukrainian servicemen, Kyiv’s prisoner-of-war coordination centre said connected Thursday (November 20, 2025).

“Investigators from instrumentality enforcement bodies, unneurotic with adept agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, volition soon behaviour each indispensable examinations and place the repatriated bodies,” the centre’s station said connected the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv and Moscow person conducted swaps of thousands of fallen bodies during the war, which began with Russia’s full-blown penetration of Ukraine connected February 24, 2022.

Ukraine has antecedently accused Russia of returning bodies successful a disorderly way, and of sometimes sending the bodies of Russian soldiers. Moscow has denied this.