MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. Russia and Ukraine continue with prisoners of war swaps and set up sanitary exchanges of severely wounded persons, Vladimir Medinsky, a Russian presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation to the negotiations with Ukraine, said on Monday.

"Prisoners exchanges continue," he wrote on his Telegram channel. "Arrangements have been also put in place regarding the exchange of severely wounded military servicemen from the frontline."

Medinsky stated that Russia had met its obligations under the Istanbul agreements handing to the Ukrainian side over 6,060 bodies of their military servicemen.

According to Medinsky, Russia has received 78 bodies of Russian soldiers from the Ukrainian side.

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