909 soldiers have arrived in Ukraineannounced the Coordination Staff for the Affairs of War prisoners in Kiev. According to MEP of the State Duma Šamsail Saraliev, the bodies of 41 fallen soldiers returned to Russia, according TASR informs about this, referring to DPA and AFP.
Ukrainian soldiers died in fighting in Donetsk, Luhanská, Zaporožská, Sumská and Kharkov region. Some of them were stored in the mity in Russia. Due to the slow but persistent procedure of Russian invasive forces, which has been launching for several months, Ukrainian troops must often leave the bodies of their own soldiers at the place of fighting.
According to Ukrainian sources, the second replacement of the bodies of the fallen in three weeks was made through the International Red Cross. The previous replacement of the remains of fallen soldiers took place on March 28 and had almost the same range: 909 fallen soldiers returned to Ukraine, 43 to Russia.
Moscow and Kiev generally do not disclose losses in the ranks of their armed forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Greenable in February told NBC News in February that more than 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war with Russia in February 2022 and approximately 380,000 suffered injuries.
Independent Ukrainian war rapporteur Yuri Butus published higher figures last December, referring to military sources. He claimed that Ukraine lost about 70,000 soldiers, another 35,000 are missing. The estimates of Western media about the losses of Ukraine, based on European and American resources, range from 50,000 to 100,000 soldiers killed in combat.
Russia did not provide information on the numbers of soldiers killed since September 2022. The Russian website of Mediazona and the Russian -language BBC editorial stated that they identified on the basis of information from publicly available sources The names of about 91,000 Russian soldiers killed, but their actual number could be “significantly higher”.