On June 6, Russia launched a campaign to hand over more than 6,000 bodies to Ukraine and exchange the wounded, seriously ill and prisoners of war, Vladimir Medinsky, an assistant to the Russian president said, APA's Moscow correspondent reports.
According to him, the first batch of frozen corpses of 1,212 Ukrainian soldiers has already arrived in the exchange zone in refrigerated trucks, and the rest are on their way.
Medinsky noted that the Ukrainian side has unexpectedly postponed both the reception of the corpses and the exchange of POWs for an indefinite period:
"Russia calls on Kyiv to strictly comply with the agreements reached in Istanbul and immediately begin the exchange of POWs. At the same time, Russia has provided Ukraine with the first list of 640 prisoners of war belonging to the category of "wounded, seriously ill and young people" in order to start the exchanges."
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