Ukraine has managed to recover 522 bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv directions. They were on the lists of missing persons, Oleh Kotenko, the commissioner for missing persons in special circumstances, has said on the UArazom telethon.
"There is an exact figure of how many bodies of our dead defenders we have brought home. We have already managed to recover 522 bodies. We are taking them from different directions - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv," Kotenko said.
He added that negotiations with Russia on the exchange of bodies are much different now than they were in 2014-2015.
"We directly communicated with the leaders of the DPR/LPR and directly settled the issue. Now the negotiations are going differently. We have a mediator. This is the International Committee of the Red Cross, through which we communicate with the Russian Federation. These negotiations are going well. We are recovering the bodies of our defenders," Kotenko explained.