Agreements of Istanbul
Moscow hands 6,000 dead soldiers – and offers more
Ukraine has received thousands of corpses from Russia in accordance with the agreements in Turkey. It is the biggest action so far. Now Moscow offers more dead.
After the handover of more than 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers’ corpses to Kiev, Moscow declared his willingness to continue to return. The Russian Ministry of Defense said 2,239 corpses could be handed over. Previously, according to an agreement made during discussions in Istanbul, more than 1,000 corpses of fallen Ukrainian soldiers had been handed over to Ukraine for the fifth time within a week. Russia also received fallen.
According to Ukraine, the body of a total of 6,057 soldiers has received five transfers. In return, the Russian side received 78 corpses, said Moscow negotiator Vladimir Medinski. The exchange of prisoners will also continue, he said at Telegram. It is about seriously injured along the front line.
The Russian army has been on the rise for months; And the Ukrainian side cannot therefore recover your own fallen. According to Sofija Fedina, the Ukrainian parliamentary MP, the majority of the fallen from the West Russian border region of Kursk, from which the Ukrainian troops were pushed out again after several months.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow originally announced an exchange of 6,000 against 6,000 soldiers’ corpses on June 2 at the direct negotiations of the warring parties. Russia always only spoke of a handover of Ukrainian fallen.
Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian invasion for more than three years.
dpa
Source: Stern
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