Ukraine returns bodies of 1,000 fallen soldiers from Russian-held territories
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:41:00 +0300

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported the information.The agency stated that law enforcement investigators, together with expert institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will soon carry out all necessary examinations and identify the repatriated bodies.The repatriation was made possible through the joint efforts 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, the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner 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.The Coordination Headquarters also acknowledged the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross in facilitating the process.“We express our gratitude to the personnel of the Central Directorate of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Joint Center for Military Law Enforcement Measures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their role in transporting the repatriated bodies to designated state specialized institutions and organizing their handover to law enforcement agencies under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and forensic medical experts within the Ministry of Health,” the statement reads.On September 18, within the framework of repatriation measures, 1,000 bodies were returned to Ukraine. According to Russia, they belong to Ukrainian servicemen.
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