Russia claims Kyiv postponed plans for exchange of soldiers' bodies
Russian state media quoted Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian negotiating group, as saying that Russia delivered the first batch of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange site at the border and is waiting for confirmation from Ukraine, but there were 'signals' the process of transferring the bodies would be postponed until next week.
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