Ukraine has received 1,200 bodies of its soldiers killed in the war with Russia, Ukrainian officials responsible for exchanging prisoners of war said on Saturday.

Ukraine has received more than 3,600 bodies from Russia in three transfer operations this week, including 1,200 handed over on Saturday, officials in Kiev said. The coordination centre for prisoner of war affairs spoke of "bodies which,

As part of a deal to exchange prisoners of war, Ukraine and Russia are repatriating the remains of thousands of soldiers killed in the war.