By Matthew Atungwu Ukraine has received the bodies of 140 soldiers killed while trying to defend the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Za...
By Matthew Atungwu
Ukraine has received the bodies of 140 soldiers killed while
trying to defend the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson from
Russian attacks.
The authority responsible for prisoner of war matters
disclosed this on Telegram on Friday.
Five bodies were from the Sumy section in northern Ukraine.
Russia has no Ukrainian territories under its control in
this area, however at the beginning of March, units of allegedly Russian
volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine made advances from the Sumy region
into Russian territory.
The authority said that once the identities of the dead have
been established, they will be handed over to their relatives.
The authority, known as the Coordination Headquarters for
the Treatment of Prisoners of War, thanked the International Committee of the
Red Cross for arranging the return.
Ukraine has been fending off a Russian invasion for over two
years.
In spite of the ongoing fighting, both sides regularly
exchange the bodies of fallen soldiers and prisoners of war.
It is not yet known whether and how many dead soldiers
Russia has received in return
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