Ukraine confirmed this Friday the receipt of the mortal remains of 254 of its soldiers who fell in the war with Russiaas announced by its national coordination center for prisoners of war in a statement.

Specifically, Kyiv has received the bodies of 221 Ukrainian soldiers who participated in the hostilities in Donetsk, another 25 killed in Zaporizhzhia and another four in Lugansk. The remaining four were in morgues in Russia. Several ministries and institutions have participated in the operation, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to the center, which He has not given details about the place where the bodies were received..

The mortal remains of the soldiers will now be identified before being handed over to the families for burial.

Russia proposes prisoner exchange with Ukraine

On the other hand, since Moscow has published a list with the names of 430 captured Ukrainian soldiers “ready to return” if Kyiv decides to exchange them for Russian prisoners. The Russian Human Rights Commissioner, Tatiana Moskalkova, has addressed her Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitri Lubinets, through a message on her Telegram account to “intensify” before the Kyiv authorities “the exchange processes” between the two. countries.

It is “a list of Ukrainian servicemen who are ready to return home in the near future if the Ukrainian side agrees to receive them in exchange for Russian prisoners of war,” Moskalkova said.

“I hope that the humanitarian dialogue continues and that our military personnel can return to Russia soon,” he confided.