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19 Aug 2025, 17:54 GMT+10
Moscow has received the bodies of 19 of its fallen soldiers from Kiev in return, the news agency has reported
Moscow has delivered the bodies of another 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers to Kiev, sources have told TASS.
Moscow has received the remains of 19 of its soldiers from the Ukrainian side in return, the agency reported on Tuesday.
The swap follows a summit on Friday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, and the US president's meetings in Washington on Monday with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky and Western European leaders, during which a possible settlement of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev was discussed.
Moscow offered to repatriate the remains of over 6,000 of Kiev's troops as a humanitarian gesture during the second round of talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul in early June. The promised number of bodies was transferred to Ukraine in the following weeks in several stages. Russia received the remains of 79 fallen Russian soldiers in exchange.
Putin announced later that Moscow was ready to return another 3,000 bodies to Kiev.
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