The largest operation of its kind .. Restore 757 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers from Russia

Kiev announced on Friday that Russia has returned 757 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the battles, in the largest operation of its kind since the beginning of the war.
The exchange of the bodies of the soldiers and the prisoners of war is one of the few areas of cooperation that still exists between Kiev and Moscow after the outbreak of the Russian invasion in February 2022.

The bodies of Ukrainian soldiers

“The bodies of 757 fighters who fell during the battles to Ukraine were restored,” said a governmental coordination headquarters, a governmental body.
The source stated that the largest part of the bodies was sent from the eastern Donetsk area, where the fiercest battles revolve, especially in the vicinity of the mineral city of Boukrovsk.
451 bodies from the vicinity of the city of Donetsk specifically, and 130 bodies came from the vicinity of Zaburigia, as Russia has intensified its attacks in recent months.

Victims of the war of Russia and Ukraine

In light of the intensification of the battles in the region, Ukraine fears the intensification of Russian attacks in this direction after the Ukrainian forces are in a critical position on the eastern front.
The identity of 34 bodies has not yet been determined and it comes from “different Russian candidates”, according to the headquarters of the Ukrainian coordination, and last December, Ukraine announced the receipt of the bodies of 503 of its soldiers who fell in the battles.
In October, 501 bodies were restored, according to Kiev, and it remains difficult to determine the seized number of soldiers who have died in the battles since the outbreak of the war.
Each party is preserved in the disclosure of actual losses and inflated the losses of the other party.

Russia and Ukraine losses in the war

In December, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski announced the death of 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers and the injury of 370,000 since the outbreak of the Russian invasion, in a toll that might be a candidate to rise, according to observers.
As for Russia, which does not disclose its losses in Ukraine, it also does not reveal the operations of restoring the remains of its soldiers.
The number of Russian military personnel who fell in the war on Ukraine is estimated at more than 82,000, according to the independent media media and Russian service in the BBC.
This is according to estimates based on general information such as general data, obituary advertisements and deaths circulating on social networks, as well as a census of graves in the graves.