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[Regnum] Repatriation trains with the bodies of fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin moving to the border on June 8. This was announced to journalists on June 8 by a representative of the Russian negotiating group, First Deputy Chief of Information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin.
He noted that Russia plans to return the bodies of soldiers to Ukraine by road and rail.
“Repatriation trains, which also contain the bodies of servicemen, are also starting to move in order to fulfill the promises of the Russian side that we gave to the Ukrainians during the negotiations in Istanbul,” Zorin said.
He added that the Russian side is ready to return more than 6,000 bodies. They will be delivered to the transfer site in batches.
Zorin added that there are signals that the process of transferring the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers will allegedly be postponed until next week. The Russian side is waiting for notification via a special channel, he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, during the negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2, the Russian side stated that Moscow would unilaterally hand over to Kiev the bodies of 6,000 dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that Russia immediately began preparing this humanitarian operation.
On June 7, the Russian side, in accordance with the agreements, delivered the first part of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to the Ukrainian border - 1212. However, the humanitarian action did not take place because no one from the Ukrainian side contacted. The Kiev negotiating team did not even arrive at the exchange site. Moscow called on the Kiev regime to comply with the agreements and immediately begin the humanitarian action.
Zorin reported that three more trains with 1,200 bodies each and a car train with 1,200 bodies would be ready for dispatch in the near future. In addition, a list of 640 prisoners of war for exchange was given to the Ukrainian side.
However, as Vladimir Medinsky, the presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Kiev, stated, Ukraine unexpectedly postponed both the acceptance of bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war for an indefinite period, limiting itself to “various and rather strange” explanations. According to some reports, Kiev expects to hold the events next week, June 9–15.
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