MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. The Kiev regime has indeed been sustaining huge casualties on the battlefield, as confirmed by the number of bodies of dead soldiers returned in official exchanges. Russia returned 20,354 Ukrainian servicemen’s bodies to Kiev as part of exchanges, while Ukraine returned 627 Russian soldiers' bodies to Moscow over the past 12 months, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said at a briefing on Friday.
According to him, the Kiev regime’s terrorist war on Russia has entered a new phase.
TASS has compiled key statements from the Russian diplomat.
The Kiev regime is suffering truly heavy casualties on the battlefield as confirmed by exchanges of the remains of fallen soldiers, Miroshnik argued: "Tangible confirmation of the scale of Ukraine’s losses is clearly visible during exchanges of the remains of fallen servicemen of the conflicting sides."
Over the past year, he said, Ukraine has returned 627 bodies of fallen Russian servicemen, while Russia has handed over 20,354 bodies to Ukraine: "This is the true ratio of those killed on the battlefield, a fact neither Kiev nor Brussels is willing to discuss."
