The Russian side, in conjunction with Istanbul agreements on June 6, began to sell the humanitarian campaign on the transfer of Ukraine to more than 6 thousand bodies of the dead military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the exchange of wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war and prisoners of war under the age of 25.
About this Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, the head of the Russian delegation on two rounds of Istanbul peace negotiations, Vladimir Medinsky wrote in a telegram channel on Saturday. June 7.
The first batch of frozen bodies of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the amount of 1212 has already arrived in refrigerators in the exchange area, the rest “on the way”, Medinsky noted.
In addition, Ukraine has been transferred to the first list of 640 prisoners of war, categories of “wounded, seriously ill and youth” in order to begin the exchange, the assistant to the Russian leader said.
According to him, the contact group of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is on the border with Ukraine. “However, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly transferred to indefinitely and acceptance of bodies and exchanging prisoners of war. For some reason, a group of their negotiators did not even arrive at the place of exchange,” Medinsky said.
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The reasons are called different, and rather strange, he claims. “We urge Kyiv to clearly comply with the schedule and all the agreements reached, immediately proceed to the exchange. Let, as we agreed, 1,200 soldiers and officers on each side will receive a chance to return home. We will finally call the bodies of 6,000 soldiers and Armed Forces of the Armed Forces so that the families can present them humanly,” follows the publication.
Medinsky pointed out that the representatives of the Russian Federation are in place and in full readiness for work. “International TV channels, news agencies and correspondents can come and see personally that everything is so. Russia is always holding the word,” he added.