Bodies of over 500 servicemen considered missing returned to Ukraine

Ukraine has returned the bodies of 522 fallen defenders who were on the lists of missing persons, Oleh Kotenko, the commissioner for people gone missing under special circumstances, said on Ukrainian TV channels, Report informs referring to Ukrinform.

“There is an exact number of how many bodies of our defenders we have returned. We have already managed to return 522 bodies. We are taking them from different directions of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions," said Kotenko.

He noted that Ukraine is doing everything possible to return the bodies of all its fallen soldiers. However, the negotiations with the Russian Federation regarding the exchange of bodies differ much from those that took place in 2014-2015.