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Russia and Ukraine on December 19 announced that they have conducted another exchange of bodies as part of agreements reached earlier this year in Turkey.
“As part of the Istanbul agreements, the bodies of 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers have been handed over to Ukraine,” Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky wrote on Telegram, adding that Kyiv returned the bodies of 26 Russian servicemen to Moscow.
On the other side, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War also announced the exchange, saying it received the bodies of 1,003 of its servicemen.
The headquarters said in a statement that investigators and experts would work to conduct all necessary examinations and identify them.
“We express our gratitude for the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross,” the statement added, without mentioning the number of bodies returned to the Russian side.
The two countries conducted three rounds of renewed peace talks in Istanbul – on May 16, June 2, and July 23 – which produced the agreements on the exchange of bodies in addition to prisoner swaps.
The latest exchange brought the number of bodies Russia has handed over to Ukraine since the agreements to well over 16,000. Meanwhile, Ukraine sent around 450 bodies. The difference reveals a shocking gap in the rate of losses between the two sides, which have been fighting for more than three years now.
The general ratio of bodies exchanged is now around 36 to 1, meaning the remains of 36 Ukrainian soldiers were exchanged for the remains of a single Russian soldier.
Ukraine has already attempted to stall the exchanges more than once in a clear attempt to hide its massive losses. Financial motives were also behind these attempts. By keeping the bodies in Russia, Kiev could dodge paying compensation to the families of the soldiers. By Ukrainian law, the government is not obligated to make any payments as long as the soldiers remain classified as missing in action.
Russia is likely still in possession of thousands of bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, and the number is certainly growing by the day as Kiev forces continue to lose territory within the special military operation zone.
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the main problem facing some european countries (france,uk) but also other g7 ones (us,japan) is a financial crisis brought about by the large and growing amount of debt they owe. they have lost control, and it will result in a crisis like the greek crisis but larger. so having a magical enemy that cause damage to your country without anyone noticing is useful to just shut up any opposition.
and i think this is the main reason why europeans just want to continue the war at all cost. they need the russian enemy to justify completely totalitarian measures to cover for the failure not of any government but of a system, lasting decades, that didn’t do what it was supposed to do and utterly failed.
they probably would have prefered a real war that they could have blamed on the russians for reacting too violently to any of the provocations they made in the last few years.
military keynesianism has some positive aspects, but it is the master level of unproductive debts, which is what created the debt problem in the first place.
partly its the fact thaf biden flooded the world with liquidity by ordering the federal reserve to print more new notes than have ever been produced before. he created excess
credit availibility to devalue the american dollar to weaken the us globally .
duh!!! really??..
it’s very much not the europeans ar all and very much is ursula s power.. the eu wanted russia to join nato to become one of the team but she has the power to veto that and has said that as long as she is alive to block it she will .
it’s called globalisation mac!!!
the green “crisis ”
was a continuation if the roman versus greek culture the republic versus democracy . the textus receptus versus the latin vulgate.
and although certain msm source on the planet refuses to acknowledge it because they’re all in it together to deceive the world they know joe biden
set it up by printing too much liquidity. global inflation and excess credit .
that’s right they hate greece they hate the greek orthodox church that’s what happened in greece. and in melbourne australia where the biggest greek community outside if greece live they had the most brutal lockdiwn under covid of anywhere on earth allegedly under roman big ears rule and the russian church is greek orthodox really no one called it russian orthodox until after ww1.
have you ever heard of the wef????. use your brains. you’d have to be the only people on the planet who haven’t.
this logic is faulty. the russians are advancing, thus collecting russians and ukranians bodies; ukraine can’t do that (collect bodies) because they are losing ground.
do not poison russian worms w dead americunt mercenaries
mac z tommy teacup ramses python circumcised with no blood flow to thinking organ one eyed purple veined custard throwing trouser snake. angle of the dangle sub zero.
it’s way more than 36 to 1 if those ukrainians kia behind their lines were to be counted in addition to those whose remains are never recovered due to complete obliteration by those fab bombs that range all the way up to 6700lbs and other heavy weight precision russian munitions.
muitos garotos ucranianos são abusados sexualmente antes de irem para a guerra.
pointless tragedy of globalist war machine well documented
last month it was 30 russian soldiers for a 1000 ukrainian kia. the ratio is climbing. i’m guessing lots have surrendered to russian forces, and who could blame them? technically, this isn’t ukraine’s fight.