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Ukraine refused to accept 6,000 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (lemmygrad.ml)
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Eadaily: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/06/06/ukraine-refused-to-take-the-bodies-of-the-dead-by-personal-order-of-zelensky

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-postpones-prisoner-exchange-accepting-bodies-2025-06-07/

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[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

For context, receiving these bodies creates a war widow obligation roughly equal to 10% of the UAF budget. Most of these corpses were soldiers sent on the disastrous Kursk PR offensive.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/ukraine-cost-of-6000-dead-soldiers-thousands-abducted-children-have-vanished.html