Russia has announced that Ukraine has indefinitely postponed a planned prisoner exchange and the acceptance of the bodies of fallen soldiers, according to Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky.
“In strict accordance with the Istanbul agreements, on June 6, Russia began a humanitarian operation to hand over to Ukraine more than 6,000 bodies of killed Ukrainian servicemen, as well as to exchange wounded and seriously ill prisoners and prisoners under the age of 25,” Medinsky stated on Telegram.
He added that 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were stored in refrigerated containers at the exchange point. Russia has also provided Ukraine with the first list of 640 prisoners categorized as “wounded, seriously ill, and young people” to initiate the exchange, Medinsky noted.
There has been no immediate response from Ukraine regarding the postponement.
