Russia has returned to Ukraine another 1,000 bodies reportedly belonging to Ukrainian servicemen, according to the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) are preparing to conduct forensic examinations and identification procedures.
The Coordination Headquarters reported that law enforcement investigators, together with MIA forensic institutions, will soon carry out all necessary examinations to 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 (SBU), the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the MIA, the Office of the Ombudsman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service (SES), and other entities within Ukraine’s security and defense sector.
The headquarters expressed special gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross for its assistance.
“Special thanks go to the personnel of the Central Department of Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Joint Center for Civil-Military Cooperation, who transport the repatriated bodies to designated state institutions and coordinate their handover to law enforcement and forensic medicine authorities,” the statement reads.
