Moscow - Saba:
The governor of Zaporozhye Oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, has published lists of the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen that the Kyiv regime has refused to accept from the Russian side.
Sputnik News Agency reported on Sunday that Balitsky said on his Telegram account on Saturday: "We are starting to publish lists of identified bodies so that relatives of the deceased can receive the body later. We know that the Kyiv regime has this data, but it is hiding it from the public."
The published list included the names of the dead, the body bag numbers, and the place of death of the deceased.
The governor added that the Ukrainian authorities are not even making any attempt to adhere to the agreements reached during the second phase of negotiations in Istanbul.
Explaining the Ukrainian side's refusal to accept the bodies, Balitsky indicated that the Kyiv regime is likely trying to conceal the extent of human losses and not pay compensation to the relatives of the dead.
According to Balitsky, "The European Union and the Anglo-Saxon countries are working to obstruct a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons to the terrorist state in Kyiv and fueling its ambitions."
Earlier, Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation to the negotiations with Ukraine, stated that Russia began transporting the bodies of more than 6,000 Ukrainian servicemen killed on June 6, in addition to a number of wounded and sick prisoners of war, in order to begin the exchange process with the Ukrainian side, as agreed upon in the Istanbul negotiations between the two sides.
Medinsky stated that the Ukrainian side did not appear at the location of the supposed exchange, despite the date being announced in advance.
Medinsky called on the Ukrainian side to return the bodies of 6,000 of its servicemen to enable their families to bury them properly.
The second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine was held in Istanbul on Monday, June 2. During the meeting, the two sides exchanged two memoranda of understanding on resolving the conflict.
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