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Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky says Ukraine returned bodies of 27 Russian soldiers
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Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in the war with Russia, officials in Kyiv said.
"As a result of the repatriation activities," Kyiv's prisoner exchange coordination committee said on Telegram, "the bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine."












