Russia claims Kyiv postponed plans for exchange of soldiers' bodies
Russian officials said yesterday that Moscow is still awaiting official confirmation from Ukraine that a planned exchange of 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action will take place, reiterating allegations that Kyiv had postponed the swap.
Russian state media quoted Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian negotiating group, as saying that Russia delivered the first batch of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange site at the border and is waiting for confirmation from Ukraine, but there were 'signals' the process of transferring the bodies would be postponed until next week.
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