Bodies of 19 Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russian captivity have been brought back to Ukraine

Oleh Kotenko, Ukraine’s Commissioner for People Missing Under Special Circumstances, has said that Ukraine had brought back the bodies of 19 soldiers who died in Russian captivity. The bodies of another four soldiers will be returned to Ukraine in the coming days.

Source: Suspilne, citing Oleh Kotenko during a roundtable on missing persons

Quote from Kotenko: "I want to mention the sad cases when people were held in [Russian] captivity and interrogated, as we saw [in video footage]. I brought back 19 bodies; they died in captivity. I will bring back another four [bodies] in the coming days. They are the bodies of people who were held in [Russian] captivity and died there."

Details: Kotenko stressed that Russia is handing over the bodies of prisoners of war who died in captivity to Ukraine, but did not offer any additional comments on the process of bringing the bodies of those soldiers to Ukraine.

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