Ukraine on Friday said it has received 1,200 unidentified bodies from Russia as part of an agreement reached at peace talks in Istanbul.
鈥楾he bodies of 1,200 deceased persons were returned to Ukraine,鈥� said Ukraine鈥檚 headquarters for the treatment of POWs.
鈥楢ccording to the Russian side, the bodies belong to Ukrainian citizens, including military personnel.鈥�
Moscow said last week it would unilaterally hand to Ukraine the bodies of 6,000 killed soldiers in total, in what Kyiv said would be an 鈥榚xchange鈥�.
The agreement had appeared in doubt earlier this week after Russia accused Ukraine of not coming to collect the first set of bodies and Kyiv said Moscow was playing a 鈥榙irty, political game鈥�.
Earlier this week, Russia said it handed over the bodies of 1,212 killed soldiers in the first stage of the arrangement.
The deals to hand over killed soldiers and exchange captured soldiers are the only agreements to have come out of two rounds of peace talks in Istanbul.
Russia has rejected calls to halt its three-year invasion and demanded Ukraine cede even more territory and renounce Western military support if it wants peace.