MIA experts identify 757 bodies of fallen heroes returned from Russia

24 January 23:25

Interior Ministry specialists will identify 757 fallen defenders whose bodies were returned to Ukraine by the Russian occupiers today as soon as possible. This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Komersant ukrainskyi reports

The bodies of the dead soldiers were handed over to law enforcement agencies and forensic experts. The procedure is necessary to identify the victims.

Among the returned heroes:

  • 451 soldiers from the Donetsk sector;
  • 71 heroes from the Bakhmut sector;
  • 51 soldiers from the Vuhledar sector;
  • 13 defenders from the Luhansk sector;
  • 137 soldiers from the Zaporizhzhia sector;
  • 34 bodies returned from morgues in Russia.

Law enforcement officials together with experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are working to identify the bodies as quickly as possible. Their efforts are aimed at giving families the opportunity to say a decent goodbye to their loved ones.

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It should be noted that in early March 2024, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets reported that more than 2,800 bodies and body fragments of soldiers had been identified in Ukraine. It is not known how many bodies remain unidentified.

on February 25, 2024, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the number of Ukrainian military killed for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion: 31 thousand. At the same time, Zelensky said that he could not disclose the number of wounded and missing among the Ukrainian military.

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Дзвенислава Карплюк
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