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Russia returns 563 bodies of war soldiers to Ukraine

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Ukraine said on Friday it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops that had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region.

The exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded in 2022.
โ€œThe bodies of 563 fallen Ukrainian defenders were returned to Ukraine,โ€ the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said in a statement on social media.

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