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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, June 7 (Xinhua) — Russia on June 6 began the process of transferring more than 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine and exchanging prisoners of war, but Kyiv unexpectedly postponed both the acceptance of the bodies and the prisoner exchange indefinitely, Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian negotiating team, said on Saturday.
“On June 6, in strict accordance with the Istanbul agreements, the Russian side began implementing a humanitarian action to transfer more than 6,000 bodies of dead Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen to Ukraine, as well as to exchange wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war and prisoners of war under 25 years of age. The first batch of frozen bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, 1,212 in number, has already arrived in refrigerated trucks to the exchange area. The rest are on the way,” V. Medinsky wrote on his Telegram page.
According to the head of the Russian negotiating group, the Russian Defense Ministry’s contact group is on the border with Ukraine. The negotiating group from the Ukrainian side “for some reason did not even arrive at the exchange site,” he says, adding that “the reasons given are various, and rather strange.”
“We call on Kyiv to strictly adhere to the schedule and all agreements reached, and to immediately begin the exchange,” V. Medinsky emphasizes.
So far, the Ukrainian side has not responded to Russia’s accusations. –0–