{"id":659,"date":"2025-06-16T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:58:40","slug":"moscow-ready-to-repatriate-more-remains-of-ukrainian-troops-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/moscow-ready-to-repatriate-more-remains-of-ukrainian-troops-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow ready to repatriate more remains of Ukrainian troops \u2013 MOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev could receive an additional 2,239 bodies, the Russian defense ministry has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia is ready to hand over more remains of fallen troops to Ukraine, in addition to making good on its earlier promise to send some 6,000 bodies to Kiev\u2019s military, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.<\/p>\n

During talks in Istanbul in early June, Russia unilaterally decided to repatriate the bodies of 6,060 slain Ukrainian troops as a humanitarian gesture. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the final batch of remains had been handed over to Kiev, and that Moscow had \u201cfulfilled the agreements\u201d<\/em> reached during the talks in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n

However, the ministry made it clear that it presently holds some 2,000 more remains. \u201cAt this stage, we are ready to hand over another 2,239 bodies of the deceased servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the Ukrainian side,\u201d<\/em> a statement released on Monday claimed.<\/p>\n

Moscow transferred 1,248 bodies in an exchange on Monday during which it received from Ukraine the remains of 51 slain Russian servicemen, it said.<\/p>\n

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Russia has this received some 76 bodies from Ukraine, having repatriated some 6,000 to Kiev.<\/p>\n

Russia initially tried to return the remains over the previous weekend, but Ukraine\u2019s representatives failed to show up at the exchange point on the border between Belarus and Ukraine. Kiev later claimed that it had not agreed on the date of the transfer and accused Moscow of \u201cusing humanitarian issues for information purposes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

At the time, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova branded Ukraine\u2019s failure to receive the bodies of its fallen soldiers \u201cgenocide against its own people.\u201d<\/em> The deliberate inaction of Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s government was proof that it \u201cdoes not need its people; neither dead nor alive,\u201d<\/em> she argued.<\/p>\n

Kiev eventually began to accept the bodies from Moscow on Wednesday, with several transfers taking place since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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