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Russian Ministry of Defense announces its readiness to begin transferring the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Moscow is ready to hand over the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Kiev right now, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian group at the negotiations with Ukraine, said on June 7. “We are ready to work right now, because the bodies are in close proximity to the exchange site, and we are interested in carrying out this purely humanitarian action,” the Russian Defense Ministry reports Zorin’s words on its Telegram channel. He recalled that the Russian side had fulfilled the agreements concluded in Istanbul on June 2 and delivered the first part of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to the Ukrainian border – 1,212 bodies. However, the humanitarian action did not take place because no one from the Ukrainian side made contact. Some Ukrainian and international media outlets later reported that Kiev allegedly intends to postpone the prisoner exchange and return of the bodies of the dead until next week, June 9–15. Moscow will wait for official statements on this issue, Zorin concluded. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the second round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev on the settlement of the conflict took place on June 2 in Istanbul. The Russian and Ukrainian sides agreed to exchange prisoners of war under the age of 25, as well as the sick and seriously wounded, on the principle of "all for all." This is expected to be the largest prisoner exchange since the start of hostilities, which could include between 1,000 and 1,200 people. In addition, Moscow will unilaterally hand over to Kiev 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. On June 7, Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, said that the leaders of the Kiev regime had unexpectedly postponed the acceptance of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war with the Russian Federation. Medinsky called on representatives of the international media to come to the site of the planned exchange and make sure that Russia was fulfilling its part of the agreement. Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk said on June 6 that the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, personally ordered that the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers not be taken away. In his opinion, Zelensky refused to return the bodies of the soldiers from Russia because he was used to taking payments for the dead. More from regnum.ru Medvedev: Ukraine does not take the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers because it does not want to pay the widows Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes that the Kiev regime did not take the bodies of its military personnel from the Russian side for two reasons. "The Kiev bastards don't want to take the bodies of their dead. There are two reasons for this: it's scary to admit that there are 6,000 of them, and they don't want to pay the widows," Medvedev wrote on his page on the social network X. The Russian Defense Ministry's contact group arrived at the border with Ukraine on June 7. However, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly postponed both the acceptance of bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war for an indefinite period. At the same time, the Kiev negotiating group 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. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the residents of Ukraine will curse the Kiev regime if the Ukrainian side does not take the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on June 7. Earlier, commenting on Kiev's refusal to accept the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, Zakharova said that the Kiev regime, which committed genocide against its own people, does not need Ukrainians, either alive or dead. She also noted: there is no nation or ethnic group in the world that would refuse to bury its soldiers. Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk said that the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, personally ordered that the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers not be taken away. According to the parliamentarian, Zelensky made this decision because he was used to taking payments for the dead. Posted by: badanov 2025-06-08 |
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