Oleh Kotenko, Ukraine's commissioner in charge of missing persons, has said Ukraine has recovered 30 defenders' bodies, the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories has said.
They will be handed over to their families for proper burial.
The operation to recover the bodies took place in Zaporizhzhya Region in line with the Geneva Convention and involved Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate, Security Service of Ukraine, General Staff and other uniformed agencies.