Russie and Ukraine will exchange prisoners of war on Thursday, June 12, “seriously injured,” Moscow said on Wednesday, a new stage in an agreement in the recent negotiations between the two camps in Istanbul in Turkey.
“Tomorrow, we will begin the ‘health exchanges of serious urgent prisoners injured,” said Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinski on social networks.
During the conversations in Istanbul, Türkiye, the countries agreed to release more than 1,000 prisoners of each camp and make the remains of the combatants, the only tangible result of these negotiations.
Hundreds of repatriated bodies to Uraine
Ukraine announced Wednesday that he had recovered 1,212 bodies of his soldiers killed in the front, announcing Russia, on the other hand, a new exchange of wound prisoners wounded on Thursday.
“The bodies of 1,212 defenders who fell into the battle were returned to Ukraine,” said Ukraine headquarters in a statement on Wednesday, the structure of the government in charge of the prisoners of war. The Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinski announced that Russia had recovered 27 bodies from his soldiers.
On Wednesday, the headquarters of Ukraine, the structure of the government in charge of the archive, published images of parked trucks, as well as people in white overalls with emblems of the International Red Cross that walks next to the vehicles. “Researchers” and doctors “will establish as soon as possible the identity of the deceased,” he added.
These soldiers were killed in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv (Northeast), Lougansk and Donetsk (East), Zaporijjia and Kherson (South), as well as in the Russian region of Koursk, where Ukraine launched a military operation in 2024.
On Saturday, Vladimir Medinski accused Ukraine of having “unexpectedly informed the reception of the bodies of” dead soldiers “and the exchange of prisoners of war on an indefinite date.” Statements denied by Kyiv.
The repatriation of the bodies of the soldiers and the exchanges of prisoners of war are the rare areas in which kyiv and Moscow have been cooperating since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is one of the most important operations of the genre since the invasion launched by Moscow more than three years.
Source: BFM TV
