Ukraine has received 1,000 bodies that, according to the Russian side, belong to Ukrainian servicemen, as part of ongoing repatriation efforts.
The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported this on Telegram.
Law enforcement investigators, together with expert institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will soon carry out all necessary examinations and identify the repatriated bodies.
The repatriation was made possible through the joint work of staff from the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Joint Center under the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service, and other structures of Ukraine’s security and defense sector. The Headquarters expressed gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross for its assistance.
The Headquarters also thanked the personnel of the Central Directorate for Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Joint Center for Civil-Military Cooperation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which transports the repatriated bodies to designated state specialized institutions and organizes the transfer of the deceased to law-enforcement agencies within the Ministry of Internal Affairs system and to forensic medical examination facilities within the Ministry of Health system.
