Russia says it is sending more Ukrainian soldiers' bodies to border amid spat over prisoner swap
Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap.
“I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Russia’s Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin said on Sunday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
The transfer of “more than 6,000 bodies” was agreed earlier this week during peace talks in Istanbul, Zorin said, blaming Ukraine for failing to “confirm receipt” of other bodies of Ukrainian soldiers which Russia claims it moved to an exchange area near Novaya Guta, Belarus on Saturday.
Kyiv firmly rejected the accusations, with Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, saying that his country was strictly adhering to the agreements reached at peace talks in Istanbul.
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