He pointed out that “on June 6, in strict accordance with the Istanbul agreements, Russia unilaterally launched a humanitarian mission to hand over 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian service members over to Ukraine, as well as exchange wounded and seriously ill prisoners and prisoners under the age of 25.”
“The first batch of 1,212 frozen bodies has arrived at the designated exchange point in refrigerator rail cars. The rest are about to arrive. In addition, the first list of 640 wounded, seriously ill and young prisoners has been handed over to Ukraine in order to begin the exchange process. The Russian Defense Ministry’s contact group is currently on the Ukraine border,” he wrote on Telegram.
“However, Ukraine has unexpectedly moved to indefinitely postpone both the acceptance of bodies and the prisoner swap,” Medinsky added.
