MOSCOW, 9 April. /TASS/. Russia has handed over 1,000 bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for 41 bodies of Russian soldiers, a source told TASS news agency.

„Russia handed over 1,000 bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers, while Ukraine handed over 41 bodies of Russian soldiers,“ the source said.

On 2 February 2026, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that since June 2025, when the repatriation of the bodies of the deceased began, more than 12,000 remains have been handed over to Kiev, while Moscow has received more than 200 bodies of Russian soldiers. On 26 February 2026, presidential assistant and head of the Russian negotiating team Volodymyr Medinsky announced that the bodies of another 1,000 deceased Ukrainian soldiers had been handed over to Ukraine and the bodies of 35 soldiers to Russia.

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