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Kiev reportedly refused to receive the bodies of more than 500 slain Ukrainian troops from Russia on June 6, foiling an exchange agreed upon during the last round of direct talks in Turkey.
Russia agreed to hand over the dead bodies of around 6,000 Ukrainian troops as a part of the large-scale exchange. The first phase, which was foiled by Kiev, would have seen Russia handing over 503 bodies in exchange for the remains of 42 of its own soldiers.
According to Russian media, all necessary procedures were carried out to complete the first phase of the exchange. 150 trucks with bodies were sent from the region of Rostov-on-Don, where special refrigerated hangars are located, to the border with Belarus. The bodies were packed in bags, then in standard containers about two meters long. Each of the trucks contained from 20 to 40 such containers.
However, at the last moment, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly refused to accept the bodies without providing any explanation. Ukrainian officials didn’t even show up.
Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky on June 4 said Moscow is ready to conduct a prisoner exchange with Ukraine.
“We assume that there will probably be 1,200 people on each side, and this will again be the largest exchange of prisoners of war. We are ready to start, June 7, 8, 9. We, on our part, are completely ready for this,” Medinsky said while briefing President Vladimir Putin on talks held in the Turkish metropolis.
The number of bodies prepared for the first phase of the exchange reveals a large gap in casualties between the two sides, with Russia capturing around 12 times the number of bodies in possession of Ukraine.
This is not surprising, however. Last May, Ukraine received the bodies of 909 slain troops in exchange for the remains of just 34 Russian soldiers. In April, there was also an exchange of 909 Ukrainians for 41 Russian. Similar exchanges occurred in March, February and January, with Ukraine receiving a total of 2,423 bodies and handing over just 137.
Ukraine may have walked back from the last exchange in order to maintain its image in the media, as this apparently means more for some in Kiev than recovering the bodies of Ukrainian troops.
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when the war will end?
next year this thing is over. afu losses are just too big🤫
take the bodies and drop them off directly over kyiv!!!
heheheh
judging by russias lack of initiative it ends when the americans decide it ends
eventually the ukrainians will run out of men before the russians do, so i suppose the russians won. they seem to have far less loses then the ukrainians. if the ukrainians had and sense at all they would just take putins deal and leave those four oblasts and stop fighting.
when russia surrenders and allowed to be totally humiliated. we will make you lick our feet. you will love to be our servants.
try to keep your economy from disintegrating because pretty soon there will be nothing to be the servant of. loser.
apparently when the kiev regime is removed only. it can last many years unless nato collapses or russia really begins a most serious advance that gets them back to where they were in early 2022, before self-defeating “good will gesturing”. diplomacy is the ruin of russia.
it won’t end . they will just change the battle field and tactics . russia has too much oil , gas and minerals ( real power ) . the war banker mafia plan has been doing this for decades in the least .
low life kiev tugs dont want get their hands dirty to burry their own fans. should post it over their social media so the wifes can see their loving supreme leader does not care for their dead husbands. maybe then they will take up pitchforks and march on kiev?
no body = no payout for the families.
also the field commanders get to keep the paycheques that the usa taxpayers are so nice to keep funding…..
this is exactly how the death cult works. widows and children should be ready to hide, for to not get murdered. and avoid hospitals, if not absolutely necessary. i have 30 years experience of the swedish pension stealing sadistic cattle, if the opportunity comes, the swedish state and buerucracy are dead. do not like those kind of gatherings for internal admiration.
fake news!
ukraine honors its martyrs!!!
heheheh
bravo well said
yes by sending them to die and then refusing to meet their obligations to the families.
lying is a sin against god. you are going to pay for covering for evil people. god is not mocked. there is a judgement you lying bastards.
illiterate use of american spelling tells us all we need to know…..
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russia honors ukrainskys martyrs!!!
heheheh
…das sind also die typen, welche meine freiheit am dnepr verteidigen???
selten so gelacht!!! muuhhaaaaaaa….
there not ukraine soldiers. 100 percent russian putin trying his best to hide his casualties numbers😁
the copium is strong with this one……. and it also uses illiterate grammar like an american….
111,000 war dead and a record number of missing in action.
as of june 6, 111,387 confirmed russian military dead. since may 23, 1,762 more names on list. 2025 is becoming record year of russian military deaths. especially numbers of missing in action is growing fast.
now when soldiers with names corfirmed been killed in ukraine the real number of killed russian soldiers is very likely 140,000 or more.
ukraine is executing its own soldiers …
and ukraine only has 31,000 casualties and the russians are firing on themselves… the problem when you bullshit all the time is after a time, nobody believes you anymore. you lost all credibility. you are pitifull.
corrupt criminal trash!
they haven’t got the money to pay the widows because they’ve squandered it all!
ukies destroyed another big russia oil depot, engels-2,by drones. russian air defense is hapless. the engels-2 base lies roughly 500 kilometers (300 miles) east of the ukrainian border and about 730 kilometers (454 miles) southeast of moscow.
humiliated russia looks beautiful.
the one liner brigade is very stupid.
keiv and it’s cokeheaded leader don’t want to pay out the millions in compensation to ukrainian families. can’t make this stuff up.
just please leave z and his regime intact and apparently in charge until odessa, kharkov and kiev are back home..z is currently russias best friend while he continues handing back territory. once he is gone so might more territory be gone..long may he live…until lampost..
this is not funded by the war cult . they prefer corruption . there is no way a us or european war banker would care anything for the families of the dead . promised graveyard payments will not come .
only 500? thought it was 6000. anyway shows what leaders of a country think of the people and their families they coerced, forced and sent off to die for them. it’s the same world over.
the ukrainian regime doesn’t want to pay compensation to the relatives of the fallen soldiers. that’s why they refuse to accept the bodies from russia. “missing” soldiers are a lot cheaper than dead soldiers.
odmietajú? tak rusi by mali zobrať z každého mŕtveho vzorku. ak sa to dá, tak palec. uchovať ho pre ďalšiu identifikáciu!!! po vojne dať pozostalým na preskúmanie dna!!! no a potom nech si to tí pozostalí vybavia s tými čo im tajili smrť ich blízkeho!!! mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
ukraine has been downgraded by ratings agencies to d or some junk bullshit. taking 6000 soldiers means paying over $2 billion to families. “ukraine” is effectively bankrupt.