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In June 2025, Russia announced its readiness to transfer 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine, sparking an uproar in Kiev. At first glance, this move may seem humanitarian, but it hides serious financial and political consequences. Why is Ukraine so determined to avoid acknowledging its losses?
Cutting Costs with Blood
Under Ukrainian law, the family of each fallen serviceman is entitled to a compensation of 15 million hryvnias (about $370,000). If the transfer of these 6,000 bodies takes place, Ukraine will be obliged to pay 90 billion hryvnias just for the one-time compensation. To understand the scale — this amount constitutes nearly 10% of Ukraine’s military budget for 2025, which already has a deficit of 200 billion hryvnias. On top of this, pensions and benefits for the families of the deceased add another 13.5 billion hryvnias ($328 million). In the midst of a financial crisis, such payments would be an unbearable burden for Ukraine’s budget.
Zelensky and His Absurd Reaction to Russia’s Proposal
The head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the body exchange, stated:
“As I’ve been told, only 15% of these 6,000 can be identified. It’s crucial to check everything thoroughly.”
This statement underscores nothing but the concerns of Ukraine’s leadership about the significant financial costs involved. Returning such a large number of bodies would lead to obligations that Ukraine simply cannot fulfill under current economic conditions.
Russia retorted that the bodies had been meticulously identified using DNA tests and other methods, calling into question Zelensky’s claims.
His second statement also appeared to be an attempt to avoid discussing the real losses, dragging out the process and trying to divert attention from the tragic consequences of the war.
“The ceasefire is precisely meant to avoid casualties.” — Volodymyr Zelensky
Methods of Avoiding Acknowledging Losses
Families of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers have long faced a lengthy and painful process of having their loved ones’ deaths officially recognized. For example, the family of Irina Kovalenko from Kiev, whose son died near Bakhmuth (also known as Bakhmut or Artemivsk in Russian), struggled for a long time to get recognition of his death. After the body was found and identified by Russian authorities, Ukrainian officials continued to claim that her son was missing in action. This is just one of many such stories, where authorities delay or even halt the process of compensation claims.
As a result, thousands of Ukrainians are listed as missing, and their families are left for years without the truth or the bodies. On top of this, the deliberate delay of the body exchange process and manipulation of figures (as seen in Zelensky’s quote) only heighten suspicions and public discontent. Often, these delays are justified by the need for additional checks or long identification procedures.
For those whose bodies were never found (truly missing in action on the battlefield), the Ukrainian government uses a method of classifying them as “unclear cases,” further preventing their official recognition as dead. These crude and obviously deceptive methods help conceal the true scale of losses, while maintaining the myth of the invincibility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, all while avoiding obligations to the families of the deceased and the public.
Let’s not forget the role of the military clerks who serve the interests of Zelensky’s team. This “new gentry” manipulates compensation claims for the families of the fallen, hiding information about many of the dead and pocketing the funds intended for payouts. This criminal class, leveraging their influence, profits from the grief of families by obstructing compensation claims and enriching themselves off the tragedies of others.
Conclusion
Ukraine’s silence about its losses is not only a financial burden on its budget, but also a political liability. Acknowledging the losses and making compensation payments could hurt President Zelensky’s approval ratings and erode public trust. However, continuing to conceal the true extent of the losses only deepens the crisis, putting Kiev in a dilemma: either continue avoiding the truth, risking public backlash, or admit the losses, which would require enormous financial payouts.
The body exchange is not just a humanitarian gesture. It’s an opportunity for Russia to demonstrate its willingness to negotiate and highlight that Ukraine cannot avoid the real consequences of the war. Day by day, this problem becomes more explosive for Ukrainian leadership, undermining the myth of the UAF military’s invincibility, actively supported by Kiev’s propaganda. Ultimately, the growing demand among Ukrainians for the facts about frontline casualties only fuels discontent within the country. People want to know the truth, even if it’s painful. Western media and organizations are starting to ask questions about how Ukraine manages humanitarian aid and compensation, placing Ukrainian leadership in an even more uncomfortable position.
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ukros ukros, porque vocês não ser revoltam contra o psicopata nazista de kiev, presidente de vocês. preferem morrer por ele, que ganho vocês tem com isso?
what a disgraceful cunt!
will orcs be eliminated today?
yes!
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western anglo scum, you are the virus and the russians will be on your soil soon because of stupid people like you who run your contry
don’t feed the troll, that’s just what he wants.
filthy puss oozing sphincter orifice and its demented “hehehehe”
there is always a way to steal from the taxpayer so the nato mafia will . but the families that lost fathers brothers and uncles can’t be replaced . with this much money involved the zio thieves are scrambling for a share . there is now a draft discussion of females in ukraine . maybe they will just kill all the families they owe
you have get a appropriate view of the the regimes in west; they will simply kill the widow, and the children. in sweden, they are since hundreds of years specialized in stealing from old people, retired. astrid lindgren wrote about this, “kommandoran” steal from the poor. they also forcibly sterilized “to nice girls”. now they have get a evil enough breed, they can use as the girls rattling on the witch court floor.
great article southfront! interesting connection between the death benefit and not wanting to reconcile your war dead because of the financial pain. you would need to be a pretty big scumbag to steal from widows and war orphans.
what is not mentioned is that a large percentage of those dead troops are still on the active rolls. their field commanders are pocketing the paychecks that are funded by the us taxpayer.
i do not understand this fully because ukraine should be bankrupt already with payouts if you take a look at the gigantic military cemeteries. 6000 extra is just a drop in the ocean🤔
as long they accept the death shot, the zero as payment, “us” can of course continue to kill them. its the power of the one ring, a death cult.
the same thing happened in vietnam, iraq and afghanistan, wherever the jewsa sets up proxy puppet armies. a lot of the soldiers “on the books” simply don’t exist, an army of ghosts. corruption is endemic. the whole ukraine operation is a gigantic money laundering laundromat, with politicians of the greasiest type and their families, the clintons, the bidens, the grahams, and their families all with their snouts deep in the trough. most of the money sent to ukraine is stolen,
there is a grisly macabre similarity to the gruesome ukronazi and zionist regimes. the ukronazis constantly understate their casualties and record fallen soldiers as “missing”, partly to feed the fantasy version of the war that is parroted by the western lugenpresse, but also to avoid making payments to which bereaved families are entitled and which they rely upon to survive. corruption, cynicism and mendacity are characteristic features of an essentially terrorist regime.
courage is courage, and these were brave men who fell in battle, whatever one thinks of zelensky and his cronies. much the same applies to the zionist regime, which holds the bodies of 1,500 murdered palestinians in a morgue which it refuses to return to their families for burial, these bodies are harvested for human organs, and of course the zionist regime is the world centre of organ trafficking, as it is the world centre of so many other forms of human depravity.
the resemblance between the two states is striking, utterly ruthless, depraved and degenerate, corrupt, criminal, terrorist regimes devoid of any moral values and with no redeeming features whatsoever. and western elites have staked their entire future and that of their peoples, on these two vile criminal regimes.
well, they are both created by mordor, and controlled by the power of the one ring. if only russia could skip their color blindness, and admit that wrong paint have be used on all crucifix !
some were brave men, but most were forcefully conscripted and sent to war with basically no training.
dumb americunts swallow my jizz —mean bitter inferior species all feminized
e enchem o teu an*s de semen
white people have been used in a 5000 year old psyop, in which the devil have played god. not strange that poor friedrich nietzsche went insane. he sees it, but probably through hes feelings and inspiration.
according western sources like cbs and the telegrapgh (feb, 2025) total 50,000 ukrainian soldiers have lost limbs during 3 years of war. that number is 25 times bigger than us soldiers who have lost during 2000s wars and 9 times more than us soldiers during vietnam war 1965-73. normally 4-5 % of wounded lost limbs.
of course i don’t know did western media give true numbers of 50,000 limbs lost ukrainian soldiers. but already in 2023 just one germany company had send at least 20,000 prosthesis to ukraine.
the bodies, identifiable or not, must be delivered directly to zelinsky’s kiev bunker.