KYIV — Russia has handed over to Kyiv the bodies of 210 Ukrainian fighters, most of whom who died defending the city of Mariupol from Russian forces at a vast steel works, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. To date, 210 of our troops have been returned – most of them are heroic defenders of Azovstal,” Ukraine’s defence intelligence directorate said on Twitter. There has been little information about the fate of the estimated 2,000 Azovstal defenders. “Work continues on bringing home all of the captured Ukrainian defenders,” said the directorate. The families of Ukraine’s Azov unit of the national guard had earlier reported the return of some bodies.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 08, 2022 05:53 UTC