The bodies of 140 Ukrainian servicemen killed in action have been returned to Ukraine, the Kyiv-based Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announced in a statement on April 26. They consist of 120 soldiers who were killed in the Donetsk region, with the remainder falling on battlefields in the Luhansk, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions," the statement said. The International Committee of the Red Cross assisted in the return of the bodies, it added. On April 12, the bodies of 99 Ukrainian soldiers were returned to Kyiv, while Russia received 23 bodies. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.
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