Ukraine’s commissioner for issues of missing persons said on August 12, 2022, that Ukraine returned the bodies of 522 fallen defenders who were listed as missing during the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine.
Source: Oleh Kotenko, the commissioner for issues of missing persons in Ukraine
According to him, all these dead people were taken from different directions. Among them are fighters who were on the lists of missing persons.
“We have already managed to return 522 bodies. We take them from different directions.”
Kotenko added that before the full-scale war, the bodies of dead soldiers were taken away by agreement with the leaders of the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic” and “Donetsk People’s Republic”, currently the intermediary in this matter is the Red Cross. There are no direct contacts with the Russians.
The Ukrainian side transmits information about the locations where there were battles with casualties, after which the Russians go to the place to look for bodies and hand them over at a specified place at an agreed time.
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