Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on November 20, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
Add as preferred source on Google
Ukraine and Russia exchanged soldier bodies, with Ukraine receiving 1,000 and Russia 30. Peace talks remain stalled, and European countries oppose a U.S.-backed peace plan.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia have carried out a new exchange of bodies of dead soldiers, Ukrainian officials and Russian state media said on Thursday.
Ukraine said it received 1,000 bodies and Russian state news agency TASS quoted an unidentified source as saying Moscow got back 30.
"Investigators from law enforcement bodies, together with expert agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will soon conduct all necessary examinations and identify the repatriated bodies," Ukraine's prisoner-of-war coordination centre said on Telegram.
The two sides have conducted a series of such swaps, as well as exchanging live prisoners, in the course of the war that began with Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Peace talks remained stalled, however, and negotiators from the two sides have not met face-to-face since July 23, when they talked for just 40 minutes in Istanbul.
European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine's allies as tantamount to capitulation.
Ukraine has previously accused Russia of returning bodies in a disorderly way, and of sometimes sending the bodies of Russian soldiers. Moscow has denied this.
(Reporting by Max Hunder in Kyiv and Mark Trevelyan in London, Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
A financial crisis is a situation in which the value of financial institutions or assets drops significantly. It can lead to a loss of confidence in the economy, resulting in bank runs, stock market crashes, and increased unemployment.
Insurance is a financial product that provides protection against financial loss or risk. It involves transferring the risk of a loss from an individual or business to an insurance company in exchange for premium payments.
Explore more articles in the Finance category
