BRYANSK, June 8. /TASS/. Russia has delivered the first batch of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange point pursuant to the Istanbul accords, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin representing the Russian negotiating group said on Sunday.
"In strict compliance with the accords reached during the Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul on June 2 and pursuant to the schedule agreed with the Ukrainian side in Istanbul, the Russian side has delivered the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen prepared for repatriation to the area of exchange. This is the first batch, the first part consisting of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom have been identified but all of them have been identified as Ukrainian servicemen by their uniform and the area where they were found," the general said.
The trains with the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen will start moving towards the border in an hour, he added.
"I can tell you that now, literally in an hour, repatriation trains, which also have the bodies of servicemen, will start their movement so that the Russian side can honor its pledges that we gave to Ukrainians during the Istanbul talks, namely, the pledges to return more than six thousand bodies of servicemen found in the special military operation zone," the Russian general said.
