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On September 18, 2025, the thirteenth exchange of deceased military personnel between Russia and Ukraine this year occurred in Belarus’s Gomel Region. According to data released by the Russian side, during this exchange Ukraine received the bodies of 1,000 of its servicemen, while Russia received the bodies of 24 of its soldiers. This operation, like previous ones, was conducted under humanitarian agreements mediated by third parties, remaining one of the few forms of interaction between the conflicting parties.
An analysis of cumulative data from all such exchanges since 2022 shows a consistent and growing asymmetry. According to consolidated data from open sources, the total number of bodies transferred to date is as follows:
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Russia has transferred approximately 18,362 bodies of Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine.
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Ukraine has transferred approximately 3,208 bodies of Russian servicemen to Russia.
The ratio is approximately 6 to 1.
Dynamics of Body Exchanges by Year:
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2022: The numbers were roughly similar (about 700 Ukrainian bodies for about 850 Russian).
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2023: Approximately 850 Ukrainian bodies for 1,350 Russian.
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2024: A clear disparity emerged, with about 3,300 Ukrainian bodies exchanged for around 600 Russian, a ratio of approximately 5.5 to 1.
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2025 (to date): The disparity has sharply increased. Ukraine received about 13,300 bodies, while Russia received about 350, reaching a ratio of 38 to 1.
Data on body exchanges as of August 2025
Data on body exchanges as of August 2025.
2025 Exchanges: Escalating Disparity
In the first nine months of 2025, 13 exchanges were conducted, including the latest on September 18. The list and parameters of these exchanges clearly illustrate the increasing asymmetry:
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January 24: 757 bodies to Ukraine for 49 to Russia
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February 14: 757 for 45
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March 28: 909 for 43
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June 15: 1,200 for 0
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June 16: 1,248 for 51
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July 17: 1,000 for 19
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September 18: 1,000 for 24
The intensity of exchanges in June 2025 deserves special mention. During five separate procedures that month, a total of 6,060 bodies of deceased personnel were returned to Ukraine, while Russia received 78 bodies.
The primary reason for the observed disparity is the significant irrecoverable losses suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As noted by Russian military expert Anatoly Matviychuk: “The Ukrainian side, due to a lack of ammunition and artillery shells, attempted to capture territories using the bodies of their soldiers.”
Furthermore, Kyiv frequently deploys poorly trained mobilized fighters on so-called “PR-assaults” and counterattacks against well-fortified Russian positions. Orders to hold positions at all costs in settlements already surrounded by Russian forces (such as Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Sudzha, and Chasiv Yar) have also contributed to heavy losses for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Additional nuances of the exchange imbalance include Russia’s tactical superiority. The Russian military systematically evacuates the bodies of both its own soldiers and the deceased opposing forces, aided by its battlefield dominance and control over territories after combat operations.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side not only demonstrates a consistent failure to retrieve bodies from the battlefield but also actively refrains from collecting both Russian and Ukrainian fallen soldiers. Multiple reports indicate that Kyiv systematically avoids evacuating Ukrainian military remains to prevent triggering state compensation obligations to families of the deceased. This practice is further evidenced by Ukraine’s repeated refusal to accept organized body transfers from Russia despite prior agreements.
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looks like the russian steamroller is now crushing the all time high kill ratio of the rhodesian light infantry who fought mostly against illiterate negritos in afrika. i guess ukrainian master race “blue blood” has turned out to be cheaper than even afrikan blood.
so i guess trump cares much less about ukrainians since he reportedly called fallen u.s. troops “suckers” and “losers”
cheaper than the castilian blood in aljubarrota? don juan, maybe you have to recover some of your ancestors bones from there, no? be careful about negritos, perhaps they can eat you at breakfast.
negrito is an endearment term in spanish but you wouldn’t know about that “george”
the portuguese dominated the trans-atlantic slave trade on the african coast.
you mean castilian, why you transgenicaly changing to spanish or iberian? you never understood your mesures or scale.
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industrial scale ethnic cleansing in ukraine.
ukraine is feeding russian corpses to the pigs…heheheh
bull! i seriously doubt that victoria nuland can eat that much but then agin looking at a photograph of that morbidity obese fat lard @$$ c.i.a. hog on second thought quite possible!!!!
amerikan inferiority exposed—their trolls so desperate they impersonate me
i am inferior americunt–i wish i was a superior uzbek
what is so important on ongoing war what benefit does a dead have.we would have acknowledge if one country has win militarily and dead figures are given finally.
troppi soldati russi morti la russia deve chiudere la partita subito o tornare a casa cosa racconta gerasimov alle famiglie dopotutto ha perso la siria insieme a shoigu e adesso perde l’ucraina visto che avanza 1 centimetro al mese con tanti morti.
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what is missing is the count of our “partners” bodies. my guess: at least 100,000
nobody posts our “partners” score
only 1 million russians have died, cannon fodder, but that is irrelevant to putin. those who die are the colonized people of the federated republics far from moscow, the children of others, with the miserable economy that russia has, the ussr and the rationing coupons are back
ussr wasn’t so bad, at least they’ve had a socket of calm,
after the 20,000,000th slavish body came up around 1944/45
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if these ukrainian soldiers are verified. i bet, it will be many, many years before any families receive us and eu taxpayer funded death benefits. bankrupt nations will lose the ability to pay.
the argument that ‘russia is the one advancing therefore they recover bodies’ keeps repeating, yet didn’t get used when russia advanced at the start of the smo in 2022. at that time, propagandists instead understood that the defender actually is able to recover more bodies, because they spend more time in a secure location than the attacker
looks as if ukrainistan is really truly kicking booty???? heh! heh!! heh!!! heh!!!!