The bodies of 503 fallen defenders were returned to the controlled territory of Ukraine

As a result of repatriation measures, the bodies of 503 fallen defenders of Ukraine were returned to the territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine.

This is reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

In general, they returned:

• 403 heroes from the Donetsk region;
• 12 — from the Luhansk direction;
• 57 — from the Zaporozhye direction;
• 31 dead were returned from morgues in the territory of the Russian Federation.

This process was made possible thanks to the coordinated work of the staff of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Central Directorate of Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Joint Center of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights and other structures of the security sector. and defense.

The department also expressed gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross for assistance in this process.

In addition, special thanks were expressed to the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who organized the transportation of repatriated heroes, as well as carried out their transfer to law enforcement agencies and forensic medical experts. The identities of all the dead will be established as soon as possible.

As ArmiyaInform reported, the bodies of 502 fallen defenders were returned to the territory under the control of the government of Ukraine as a result of repatriation measures.