Russia sends bodies of its soldiers to Ukraine during repatriations — Interior Ministry

Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko reported the information.

"During the latest repatriations, we were also given the bodies of Russian soldiers - mixed with the bodies of Ukrainians. Unfortunately, this is a fact. This could have been done by the Russians intentionally to increase the number of bodies handed over and to burden our experts with work, supplementing all this with cynical information pressure," the post reads.

Russia is deliberately complicating the process of identifying bodies for Ukraine. The fallen are returned in an extremely mutilated condition, with body parts in different bags. There are also cases when the remains of one person are returned even during different stages of repatriation.

"Our experts are working to the limit of their capabilities. Each examination is carried out carefully and more than once. Specialists are trained, laboratories are equipped, and processes are worked out. The biggest challenge is time," the minister added.

• On Monday, June 16, the final stage of the exchange of bodies of the dead between Ukraine and Russia took place, in accordance with the agreements reached in Istanbul. As part of the exchange, another 1,245 bodies, including those of servicemen, were returned to Ukraine.