{"id":19524,"date":"2025-09-18T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:04:24","slug":"kyiv-says-russia-returned-1000-bodies-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19524","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv says Russia returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ukraine on Thursday received 1,000 bodies from Russia that Moscow said were of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, a Kyiv government agency announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Repatriation measures took place today. 1,000 bodies, which according to the Russian side belong to Ukrainian servicemen, have been returned to Ukraine,&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine returned the bodies of 24 Russian soldiers in exchange, said another government body that provides information on Russian prisoners of war and missing Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The repatriation of soldiers&#8217; bodies and the exchange of POWs are some of the only areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia amid the war.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Russia warns Europe against asset seizure move<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed on both sides since Russia invaded in 2022, though neither side regularly publishes data on their own casualties.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukraine&#8217;s &#8220;I Want to Find&#8221; project, the exchange of bodies was mediated by the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a US-led push to end the conflict through diplomatic efforts and three rounds of direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow, progress towards stopping the fighting appears to have stalled.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Kremlin said that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine were on &#8220;pause&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine on Thursday received 1,000 bodies from Russia that Moscow said were of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, a Kyiv government agency announced. &#8220;Repatriation measures took place today. 1,000 bodies, which according to the Russian side belong to Ukrainian servicemen, have been returned to Ukraine,&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}