Bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders returned to Ukraine

Among the returnees are soldiers who died in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, in the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions.

As a result of the repatriation measures, the bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders were returned to Ukraine . This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (KSHPPV).

Among the returned “on the shield” defenders are those who fell in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, in the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions.

As noted in the Coordination Headquarters, the fallen defenders were returned as a result of the joint work of the headquarters staff, the Joint Center under the Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and other structures of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine.

Assistance was provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

“Investigators of law enforcement agencies, together with expert institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will establish the identities of the deceased as soon as possible,” the report says.

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