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Russia and Ukraine carried out another exchange of soldiers’ bodies on Thursday under agreements reached during talks in Istanbul last year.⁣ ⁣ Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said the bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers were handed over to Ukraine, while 35 Russian soldiers’ bodies were returned to Russia. ⁣ ⁣ Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Handling of Prisoners of War confirmed the repatriation of 1,000 bodies. Authorities said investigators and forensic experts will now work to identify the remains.⁣ ⁣ The exchange comes as Ukraine’s chief negotiator meets envoys of US President Donald Trump in Geneva for a new round of talks aimed at ending the conflict, now in its fifth year.⁣ ⁣ Kyiv and Moscow regularly publish estimates of the other side’s losses but rarely provide full details of their own.⁣ ⁣ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently said 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the fighting — a figure some Western observers say may not include those l...

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