Russia is deliberately complicating the process of identifying the returned bodies of the killed Ukrainians, during the last repatriations, the russian federation transferred the bodies of russian soldiers mixed with the bodies of Ukrainians. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko on the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
Klymenko noted that the return of the bodies of the killed is one of the most difficult, but extremely necessary missions, after each repatriation, painstaking work begins: autopsy, thorough examination by investigators, DNA examinations.
"This process is already complicated and lengthy. And russia is also deliberately making the identification process difficult for us. Bodies are returned in an extremely mutilated state, body parts in different bags. There are cases when the remains of one person are returned even during different stages of repatriation. In addition, during the last repatriations, the bodies of russian soldiers were also transferred to us - mixed with the bodies of Ukrainians. Unfortunately, this is a fact. This could have been done intentionally by the russians in order to increase the number of transferred bodies and burden our experts with work, supplementing all this with cynical information pressure. Or it could be their usual negligent attitude towards their own people. In any case, we are also identifying these bodies," he noted.
The minister emphasized that Ukrainian experts are working at the limit of the possible, each examination is carried out carefully and more than once, specialists are trained, laboratories are equipped, processes are worked out, the biggest challenge is time.
"We understand the pain and expectations of the families. We are accelerating the identification process as much as possible. But with each large repatriation, it becomes more difficult to do this, and perhaps this is precisely russia's goal," Klymenko noted.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported on June 16 that the final stage of repatriation measures had taken place in accordance with the agreements in Istanbul on June 2, and another 1,245 bodies had been returned to Ukraine, which, according to the russian side, belong to Ukrainian citizens, including military personnel. Thus, Ukraine received 6,057 bodies within the framework of the Istanbul agreements.
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