Ukraine Returns Bodies Of Another 25 Fallen Soldiers

Ukraine returned the bodies of another 25 fallen servicemen.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"Another operation was held to transfer the bodies of the fallen soldiers. Ukraine returned another 25 of its heroes," the statement reads.

It is noted that the operation was carried out with the cooperation of the Commissioner for Missing Persons Oleh Kotenko and a number of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.

The process of returning bodies takes place in accordance with the norms of the Geneva Convention.

In August, Kotenko announced that the bodies of 522 defenders, who were on the lists of missing persons, had already been returned to Ukraine.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on October 11, Ukraine returned the bodies of 62 soldiers, among them defenders from Olenivka.

Before that, in September, another transfer of the bodies of fallen soldiers took place - Ukraine returned the bodies of 25 fallen heroes.

In August, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, announced that almost 9,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been killed as a result of the full-scale invasion of the Russian occupation army.