Ukraine's Security Service reported the information.On September 18, measures were taken to repatriate the bodies of fallen defenders of Ukraine who were defending the country in the Kursk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia directions.As previously reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, investigators from law enforcement agencies, together with expert institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will soon carry out all necessary examinations and identify the repatriated bodies.The repatriation measures were carried out as a result of joint work of the staff of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Joint Center under the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Persons Missing Under Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and other structures of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Sector.As of the end of August, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Russian Federation has handed over to Ukraine 15,801 bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen who died during combat operations or as a result of the war, including in captivity and during shelling.